Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ad128b935695f30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.4 KB Created: 2020-08-29 14:32:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 32f3f8e21aa0b903ca586f496e75e42e SHA-1: 47952f00ffac6df833a6f3932525723a1ebd7d75 SHA-256: 8ad128b935695f305f6bc994121f102fccf0ebfa1d840baa38280568f38dfc31
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.me, which is designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and appears to be a lure for a PDF download. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or traffic generation to malicious sites.

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.me/wix?keyword=curso+completo+de+apicultura+georges+de+layens+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8320/2711/files/budgeting_control_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8012/2532/files/bitlocker_to_go_windows_xp.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0076/files/pile_of_shit.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_92acc624d2f3472e8150f51cdc7d6fa7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/5110/2887/files/apprendre_le_franais_pour_dbutant_gratuit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8402/1921/files/charters_towers_state_high_school_uniform.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4327/4402/files/css_diner_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8328/4136/files/zamedapobeb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73cb9e_a8ed783c42394312b441283b378b6dc4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_455e295a74104e64b1b901251d27e431.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_849ea72b66b94d2296ea6375bc26e85b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1505b55887c0471ea6653e924c00a7b1.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_off000074fa.bin
4a12fb59fae79c4356c1ec22a17b5b03aa7ec37558119dca1ed1bbef9c6dbb8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74FA 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008798.bin
90558a09f08ad81392e527ede3350b57c6f8df4d14c8d485fa8866e5f401cc49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8798 15160 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b4a5.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4A5 4324 bytes