Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94ff9f9986ad2ab8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 20:55:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1e4e8d7571acaf3d7f8f645d3d30160d SHA-1: 73dca466c1bfda68a2de3033b9b408b60e48ed72 SHA-256: 94ff9f9986ad2ab8e31ea93fb1db430ba72685b6173dd5018838e5c880c37138
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects through ttraff.com, a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body text and embedded links suggest a lure related to 'Aran sweater pattern pdf', likely to trick users into clicking the malicious redirector.

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=aran+sweater+pattern+pdf
    • http://files.christinemcahill.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383665/vapupesav_wisusapose.pdf
    • http://files.vintagesmallenginefixer.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398184/naxamakagipubexa.pdf
    • http://mazul.amvets21.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/javozamawulux_zibikufirema_diwoziko_zavevore.pdf
    • http://files.tt-motorcycles.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740343/jivakunidonon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1734/5944/files/nakebatuxolemazik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8080/0674/files/the_artist_s_way_morning_pages.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1483/1780/files/76480256251.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8530/6782/files/fuwokerofomex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5754/5365/files/limijagitimetajovusizoxeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0629/4176/files/bowoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1823/0688/files/takofog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3899/6642/files/fofiwesekakulifo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5336/5910/files/xesipexujupagafofi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0704/9887/files/65097619870.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_off0000507d.bin
cf5cfc3fa1f055b28ecc3029402aa3159f62cc54a485838b40758bd78f24ffa9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x507D 5084 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000061e1.bin
ef0df8f1f189abdf256de9dd95947df4ac8cab0e5877a5288d3079dcc3381804
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61E1 10064 bytes