Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e3a2084ada32e73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 12:27:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ce4651c10a0098e9a05ce336c4eca2aa SHA-1: f9d7e1d159948b8099f291fb69b49a366e2bed18 SHA-256: 7e3a2084ada32e733d0adc6ee31b0041e3144b1b880ba2a02888d53b1a0c1b25
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious site. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.com/pify?keyword=effortless+english+full+pdf
    • http://files.northwestskatersunited.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406036/demanala-pidifemos-xolerawinij.pdf
    • http://kamona.bonescanoeandcampground.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/7509781.pdf
    • http://files.thepowerofampersand.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398204/779c45db630eb.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9767/0303/files/62602679106.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4223/4791/files/livaxiniditufifijaladod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0775/2861/files/10480752587.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/fizajukifajutesij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3204/9824/files/bear_witness_crossword_answer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1231/6584/files/buxetetobukenojulu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2236/7390/files/kiweparovitixejunaves.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5495/5672/files/mebatarawoxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5675/1002/files/swot_analysis_of_adidas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7910/6724/files/propositional_logic_in_discrete_mathematics.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_off000055d0.bin
dfb02327b76913c6f5ebeec59c24433fe63098e22af2cdfc400341122e3f903e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55D0 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000066f7.bin
c2f0da673ac31ce3eb1af6d268ef7bf06ac544c06c505384b271cd6fd00782e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66F7 9804 bytes