Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8849253c465d461c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 14:30:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee1a39c15adf28148027d58c5b608f71 SHA-1: 195e41530eab42f017b2737105dd0e6d596e3fcc SHA-256: 8849253c465d461cb0db64c4638b2256e30727c57c7a09c68e163e21f9579767
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to SEO-optimized PDF files, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious URL (ttraff.cc). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and appears to be a lure for a product, likely a scam. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=twin+size+platform+bed+with+trundle
    • http://davakim.sharibatheactor.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969341/guwizitidupomuw.pdf
    • http://muminari.sangcofair.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681026/fubim_momid.pdf
    • http://files.faithfamilymaui.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607027/mudokom.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3495/0304/files/32926464023.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8548/8543/files/16808086263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4255/9384/files/flight_attendant_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/91146339154.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2953/4632/files/pelix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2340/8032/files/13916572297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6284/1759/files/sepsis_new_definition_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4306/0901/files/nozesetokewilu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8035/8811/files/19988646666.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53635556436.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5575/9011/files/wujesetagidonosaxav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7792/7072/files/ps4_gta_5_cheats.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_off000053da.bin
7426f1dbbafdacb5ec7a4ccf6853c3aa71182a83dca12b802ad7380257409423
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53DA 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000667d.bin
3af25a69159c96d30582ad08bc4b7ed26391b5f51b151af6c91b46e9a48635cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x667D 10636 bytes