Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bc7ef530d05eb4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 14:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee3c6e9a520ec8f6bf9d2fdd06f40101 SHA-1: 66aa6fbcae587b7ab697e5907a09ed5853116d49 SHA-256: 7bc7ef530d05eb4c58d775c9bd0464f1c31b6d85c92b4fe4753045a27efc36ec
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised as a download for 'Media player classic vlc free'. The document also features a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link.

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=media+player+classic+vlc+free
    • http://wemuwu.speakingyourbestinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856919/4935271.pdf
    • http://files.birchpta.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/9495563.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3360/5797/files/bidayatul_mujtahid_wa_nihayatul_muqtashid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6252/4069/files/65562432002.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1241/5911/files/applied_linguistics_books_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3182/8379/files/habanera_carmen_partitura_piano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1772/2280/files/tomanikolusigazik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4396/3559/files/speak_up_3rd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5598/8374/files/28654269307.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/36357502568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1107/9317/files/3200212426.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e5f.bin
eb9c765a6ce8ae7f71500666cf0473404751fdd741061c1f6843df419626eb61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E5F 4808 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ecf.bin
661a6876e6291dfeb2b69d702948010404e9a1e5d63e11026e67be0c759686e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ECF 10500 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000092b4.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92B4 4324 bytes