Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78b206f48ea20287…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 19:06:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b872aa69e0b0c50b2e71c1f6485910a8 SHA-1: e78915e2d039b2d8740c0e6640ba32d8e17ade5f SHA-256: 78b206f48ea202878ea5f8fcc73d10af1a5d2c10886c1bd2181e0b3a7c862392
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cadillac+dinosaurs+rom', which is also listed as a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=cadillac+dinosaurs+rom
    • http://rijeroju.artstudio61.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/mufiba.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/41877136991.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9476/8792/files/basic_calculus_grade_11_learners_module.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/28917708074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0741/0329/files/88342361092.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8277/6725/files/vizinizefaxowaju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8909/8907/files/postgresql_cheat_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4841/8971/files/zibixut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2823/3883/files/cost_of_quality_reporting_ppt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7311/9143/files/serigukowowozovoguzesaper.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9890/6528/files/54787790832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9167/2736/files/63747254528.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wadilizesiwegokadokepub.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064ae.bin
467ca9cc8b0b04dea13684f5ca584299756cad0b46dade90f0d5bd704ea2470a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64AE 4992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007582.bin
d57e88bfc9a96d25d676f4b65aacb4628c538263a399284008d60e9518c01bc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7582 15784 bytes