Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b3460dd5707d138…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 03:45:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d800cfd8346ad8e89afd649f77820191 SHA-1: d06892cf68a3f8c721f4b3e2fa42f979d34aacce SHA-256: 8b3460dd5707d1388d676a37febc3ff2419c6ca637a86557608299d5e63aeb22
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=acmyc+tamil+bayan'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of the redirector URL suggests an attempt to lure users to a malicious destination, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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=acmyc+tamil+bayan
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5296/6812/files/68402192803.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7922/1919/files/eyes_emoji_text.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4800/8866/files/xedudawakogevavibudi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3093/6733/files/77056964297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8767/5036/files/35289291040.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2568/6951/files/gaxujomewajos.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f63f29_f1f088e39608489aa4526f2f9c6ec8d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e53d4_1e67e9aca3b24646a6797d768024256f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/09273f_161c5472cc404401a304502bd9ef9300.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/47b1e8_39b1885e2c2b4e8d9b47b44c8fb73458.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/34e21e_fa682d9d23d14d888e9e63345bd4aa00.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ad01e4458ed1442e9f2792d5686f9ff2.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_off000078a6.bin
0e3e0d10a47d2a305da73097200c53811437bbb98e27088e10c92881268c6971
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78A6 4904 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000894f.bin
336c103e4c6d920a3b080d473773a39d8cc5dd456c8d5ff0694002fc8d7813f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x894F 15068 bytes