Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fafc691ff9bf9c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 01:39:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e2390ee09e5eea79870fe570b66534d1 SHA-1: 68ad5b9a446c5930324317f82456a16359e253aa SHA-256: 8fafc691ff9bf9c77b58a93a01e3f70962e480738c8d792fa29a317021b59478
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it contains a large number of embedded external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be a malicious redirector link embedded within the document, likely designed to lure users to a harmful destination.

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=assembler+3+documents+pdf+en+1
    • http://files.knickerdog.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969080/a52cdc9.pdf
    • http://files.bowleylockcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856027/pepatofusobudozazut.pdf
    • http://files.westboroughasp.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857690/4495683.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9517/8902/files/git_delete_remote_branch.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0644/1110/files/77219197431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1416/8480/files/24875306593.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2134/3647/files/17376173467.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3062/5950/files/65129862661.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1751/9772/files/sudukuziwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6126/3001/files/belt_conveyor_components.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0297/7700/files/85922233987.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7712/4764/files/self_introduction_speech_outline.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5552/0667/files/95823382512.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_off00006621.bin
ac147f525aa37a70141d0cd48bd5bf52c094cca19e3f90d326a32b11f7b36c02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6621 5436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007889.bin
2d1f698a254ecc3b82e11d9fa1c430234e3117481f1cb156539f68f995bb6c43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7889 10312 bytes