Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 767cf730c47d4897…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-16 22:49:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b6aae40ebfe6b55d2adf629dcc85ed4f SHA-1: acc977a9cb3b0e7388d0bb32dc66c8065866ebe9 SHA-256: 767cf730c47d4897b1aee5f66c74053dc6907ffb280cc3cc16eb6c613183e966
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. It also exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, embedding numerous URLs, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious or ad-monetizing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=front+page+wordpress+template
    • http://files.centraltexascreation.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970003/3df02e.pdf
    • http://zumelo.wingerlab.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/3450544.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6997/2384/files/wepawoludovapem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6486/0580/files/fuzajemavogokako.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/16216600544.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4959/1718/files/xariferapokozun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6516/3422/files/kavos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8951/7978/files/caudiciform_plant_seeds.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5663/5816/files/15457592451.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4252/0739/files/fawekifalotinenama.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0923/6374/files/rorakijadi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0311/7719/files/42719320548.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005907.bin
e21da21ef437fd4b392d7676d78a8e73c30e3a28b9b925a3805f151d00e67484
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5907 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b20.bin
393f2a03b831fadab152f1ab4b7f505acd42c08214cb0f5c16e691047b5f19e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B20 12520 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000092e4.bin
f267a97a42ed964490c0c36cf8d24d30f5cfc386ee24850e75bb3a4991f11828
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92E4 16376 bytes