Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 888fc01821d07da0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.8 KB Created: 2020-08-18 13:16:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7c2def9323a2452fd231a6201c31ff24 SHA-1: f73d2ad78d4d6de77658ff2e3535007389cc5bd0 SHA-256: 888fc01821d07da0c3948e1508350edd6b220d9993469c58a6dfb810262a89f1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely the primary malicious objective. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=acedias+medicina+pdf
    • http://files.deltank.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454262/1766412.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2077/1750/files/cloudformation_s3_bucket.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2512/9891/files/52089533561.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9116/5333/files/tufixedaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9008/1944/files/remujodivul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2707/7032/files/mapa_del_metro_de_barcelona.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4674/7803/files/electrician_tools_list_with_pictures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8730/6658/files/vimotubadorejule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7161/8723/files/how_many_weeks_between_dates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5524/2655/files/waxijeke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4726/3131/files/xinojumef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2327/7973/files/29474648670.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/fawuretubawosadipa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6240/2965/files/46411658601.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_off0000ae15.bin
faaaeec0169c3aaa457eb08b937ce4216871d420f074c8339f71a24d0432042b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE15 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bf8e.bin
1633bb6c20e1a21269288fbf783c8654149b46bcc2d1d1df8b2e08061fd98cbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF8E 12188 bytes