Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7af63b45d8dbe731…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 15:12:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 32bf017ea62c593682989bc941771b8d SHA-1: c56bb50d8ace149471aece5e53b403467ece8dce SHA-256: 7af63b45d8dbe731cf6d3f9e051c83c539521e87e5ad56b5cf90cb35daef1e36
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector service, 'ttraff.cc', which is likely used to obscure the ultimate destination of the attack. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this redirector URL and several other URLs pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to click on these links, leading to potentially harmful content or further exploitation.

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/pify?keyword=progressive+web+app+react+template
    • http://files.rosalindmbunting.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636957/kivazawinoxi-sezemexubegi-jejitosatef.pdf
    • http://bevifeg.brewerystreet.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740145/tosopinudilijosipog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0052/3940/files/89829386645.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0584/4390/files/meek_millz_traumatized_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9769/4109/files/40245194007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2291/6520/files/86143747387.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/61047377128.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8219/4847/files/alzheimer_disease_treatment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7961/5142/files/willful_blindness_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4642/7034/files/24055568989.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5234/2184/files/rukavovumud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4486/7994/files/69727220651.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_off0000595e.bin
b92d0abe9cbc1e974071a3b7709f162b42f2a0ec4d758fc7a61f92b9a7371c80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x595E 5544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c36.bin
0c9237be68719f2ec11fa5e9baacfce636599598e5d947bd9cc6cd4929fdfab9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C36 10260 bytes