Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96d2116d9634bb65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-09-18 05:15:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f6fb8b863d28dc26db0a3aa454c4bbf4 SHA-1: 9238d1518e97b14505d6a4a33db4b3bf1f046627 SHA-256: 96d2116d9634bb65d6970209c929bad209a765a88c26e06c64918b8df17017c7
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 disguised as a service manual. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier 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.me/wix?keyword=2005+mini+cooper+s+service+manual+pdf
    • http://files.marymendenhall.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871994/netelalevasine_zemamogolirowex_livoxureba_jalatizoba.pdf
    • http://jizukiga.psusdliteracy.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871395/rakavuziniposilituw.pdf
    • http://wowuzote.spokenred.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437252/5265794.pdf
    • http://wukow.churchhillproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738546/funubolipop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/87899810879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6345/2583/files/applications_of_cathode_ray_oscilloscope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0023/3112/files/45187781005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6086/2874/files/amadeus_peter_shaffer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3940/7784/files/wow_classic_resto_druid_talent_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0953/2323/files/plants_vs_zombies_garden_warfare_2_a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9440/8357/files/22085607973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1935/3767/files/medical_powerpoint_templates_gynecology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7303/4658/files/assertive_communication_scenarios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7097/0274/files/emotional_development_theories.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_off00005ed5.bin
0451fb95b8741157757f892c005c9619d0019ca55a0d7cbb9634303ac9ad782c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ED5 5664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000720a.bin
4d532bf5197723d54bce6aaf409f93d9bd7ee82dadba0c4c0f2b5b5731ab21df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x720A 12320 bytes