Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82841487df60b49c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 23:56:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d5be63dc92282c527214c1a65673f547 SHA-1: 04a9dd675fb224bd9ceafef8c6427ab945a7c05d SHA-256: 82841487df60b49cd030fc8e97d583c2b53354a0dfa5acdc4ddd9360861853ac
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm pattern, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO abuse. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=functional+programming+vs+object+oriented+performance' is the primary indicator of malicious redirection. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other Shopify links, reinforcing the link farm characteristic.

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=functional+programming+vs+object+oriented+performance
    • http://gebak.michielwerring.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695471/wafijob.pdf
    • http://bupag.foothillsbeagleclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775380/wanuwal-zixadi-nigoxujitut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3048/5915/files/5121640381.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8105/6935/files/best_reader_app_for_windows.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/62222626122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6134/6466/files/95474242077.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xuvoba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2755/4723/files/nccn_acute_lymphoblastic_leukemia_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4669/9165/files/80427269735.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0904/7708/files/secretary_of_state_ct_concord.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2692/2146/files/80435614921.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_off00009c09.bin
9a84cc89ca3985626069f5b7fef2b6c255affaf16bd93a07afb7b8874f7a5b0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C09 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000af60.bin
e50c46f2727bcb918c5c01408c7e4df43c8aa51c00c1f8e05ab06755289dd37a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF60 10776 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000d43c.bin
920a67123ccad91b270f4afa077c80549759ca949e4b6fbb853ac8b0f76eeecb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD43C 16820 bytes