Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78a3a91ff6862d0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 19:43:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b9ac7bb550f59499f1f31aa6aac87684 SHA-1: 523ab61722a6da86ade8b7c5a001a52833e0105e SHA-256: 78a3a91ff6862d0cdfcc7f94149cbbdb7aadf3cd7adf825b3e1ad593cf6c36c8
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on various domains, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to click the malicious redirector URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=financial+statement+audit+report+example
    • http://files.dotshallmark.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070792/dozalisipovabox_wugasami_valisemavej.pdf
    • http://files.tomdangofficial.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380292/39c67ff54c820f2.pdf
    • http://files.sugarmaplecharcoal.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407315/f43f682062e4dd.pdf
    • http://jubam.shelbymbalik.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/nebavofedajekewer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1559/4393/files/arithmetic_of_binary_numbers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3723/6119/files/acuerdo_de_ginebra_1954.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3973/6487/files/fitiwijirezoberetetuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/46676539889.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2833/3219/files/mcdonalds_coupons_ontario_november_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/36936198968.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1414/4675/files/34924895523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4060/2269/files/bestiario_cortazar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2359/7725/files/15499184166.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0510/0707/files/xojuvuse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5156/3670/files/bm_das.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0461/7119/files/37276061371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0379/5877/files/88390122161.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005dfd.bin
23ba2e43eb07d8b19d7432db16e3fd3a8e8b357922cff38aec3bdb9dd00278cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DFD 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fb1.bin
68df2b9e0071a5d8a016052c1dfa27112cb441f6c6173e446eaef16c65617c92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FB1 10072 bytes