Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ae7b4e1e5ace975…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-29 20:10:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e84b600793df145ef94c0713ae8f0c7 SHA-1: fbda76023e36cd973cb0a20e9f75b8190cf987a8 SHA-256: 7ae7b4e1e5ace975ca2faa44493d0df8e370cfe332997ebd80dfc7c8bd9f29fb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised as a link to a PDF about 'ejercicios de potencias'. The document also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs. This suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/wix?keyword=ejercicios+de+potencias+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8b8bfe37f67a47b7a3d0c39fc633f479.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b604d_51025c294c6349c99dd7338079a47707.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_eeb7b8ec05764115b8b8a780d8230f3b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5aed9_f15b0a4c0e434fe584e15315ed970e0f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/3126/6215/files/how_to_analyze_aggregate_report_in_jmeter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3810/4985/files/mdcat_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7495/3120/files/vubijagejusavavixaxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4368/2469/files/40615001233.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5247/3252/files/busogebaxapokosebasuboxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/tor_browser_mac_10._8._5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9041/0658/files/lulefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4145/5254/files/7367500328.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2155/0247/files/82093966514.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_off00006522.bin
0eb6dcd13f10c61eaa9082f56984f8be422e238d9b08515f9dfd5043831bb16a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6522 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076b9.bin
73a8170666172b333ba344bdb6d049d7db5db12b13a7faec4f600b2a754ce59a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76B9 14560 bytes