Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7deb7ff22a08e6b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-09-01 08:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 35e10d790d9bd8f15df52670d8f4e5f4 SHA-1: 3137387b130f4aaab789d69d836b4804546927a1 SHA-256: 7deb7ff22a08e6b548715c3f609cf85a93e6c41fe37d3f7ba360f204dd92a520
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and several benign-looking URLs, likely intended to mask the malicious intent. The primary goal appears to be redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure via the 'ttraff.cc' domain.

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=subtraction+with+zeros+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/277b62_6f98b50dc52d4eb993b1783400f3e746.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce0e6d_8ab152fee0674520ae08c5d2d4ea722f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b874d_ce3d680063474e4d9f7e441a0c104d15.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4646e54ddc0649e38460ee08418bcde8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8098/8325/files/44709882371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8833/9354/files/92989781244.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6203/4589/files/84026268539.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7228/2008/files/somumetofaxadafunajuwodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2947/7014/files/sentencing_guidelines_death_by_careless_driving.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0991/6576/files/wulewobuvekuxejopeti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9508/4452/files/difference_between_aldehyde_and_ketone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4891/9459/files/fixekuzujizowuzonasobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3525/5203/files/rufujetilixumoketap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9902/7611/files/wubisagodonu.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_off00005d91.bin
36c851849d04214cd1e88dba318736bb2d28e24e303a9851c5092ad553f6b0ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D91 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070b0.bin
d3e6ee40c93afa9b2974bf14ce6caf30d730f3979cf9b02d3ae984801355ba40
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70B0 10900 bytes