Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c7d549e3d796196…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-16 12:52:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 36b335347429814ee668ac990cb5707d SHA-1: 587d7dfbc0a4ba5fd01ba4e292d2b8ce8540dede SHA-256: 7c7d549e3d7961965e550914fdf53239849ae616d32663a56bbef0b4f84a5d49
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same malicious URL and benign-looking PDF filenames, reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wb?keyword=brush%20calligraphy%20worksheets%20printable
    • http://files.dori-shasha-art.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813364/20b8a99d.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1542/files/lowes_carbondale_il.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4071/7462/files/kulujebarazaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8894/5064/files/steps_involved_in_problem_solving.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7234/7550/files/65108991032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8933/7256/files/zuvaluxezikoxivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3311/6317/files/68610828589.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6320/6307/files/kawufazo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5715/1142/files/69997382623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7266/8319/files/neketigumikige.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8035/8815/files/jitoloperu.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_off00005a3b.bin
57e4bcbd5c7305edd743c84e628b4ad5f5c92434eba7ff24f94b4568da92e3b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A3B 5644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d8a.bin
f0a25434b49a5105c910c4689d8682d525235b4dfeb87f0f6be6b75455fbc5f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D8A 10404 bytes