Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fd156f57f838e6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 21:51:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0a076e051bc66c5b5494016083db1f42 SHA-1: f1d2bfedf24e0f39558edd3ff4d170cffd2fdc97 SHA-256: 7fd156f57f838e6bc1cdf08ee34c047d43dafd48911c5f0d4f656dd17a85b031
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, including Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure (ttraff.cc). The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body itself is largely obfuscated but contains the same suspicious URLs. The primary attack pattern appears to be a link farm, potentially for SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious payloads.

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=how+are+crepuscular+rays+formed
    • http://files.vinoforvasculitis.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437530/9041866.pdf
    • http://vuwuz.northsummitffa.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/zutogiwi_sokizigimo_vinamenax.pdf
    • http://sowexo.jackiesskinbeautiful.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871390/a839af45e.pdf
    • http://files.youthultimateprogram.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681479/838326da5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8609/4248/files/africa_s_hidden_history.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2792/2076/files/78970020498.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1548/7135/files/vapajus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9433/4869/files/nidubuvizumuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5224/files/51155581175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7628/7648/files/75639332723.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/65294746239.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1587610690.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5631/7091/files/7139143914.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3032/3101/files/graphic_design_leaflet_templates.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_off000064ce.bin
1332692594f41dd41f1d41d5d315dc3853862257d6d80a9e817e55c6b11188e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64CE 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000775c.bin
539332562e492fec3e0f042d6ad88fc3b9c8c525dd2f14f937ce2bcc723b8080
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x775C 10012 bytes