Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9737170f94f395c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-02 11:50:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: db8f8e5c2cdf8de54ca559428d812003 SHA-1: fdf75ec388f20b725814bae9419520bdfec393ca SHA-256: 9737170f94f395c5ae3ade1606aa1b160b0d4bb257839b2454793e7a1ab18168
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, forming a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to 'ttraff.com', a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but includes the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=maytag+service+manual', suggesting a lure to potentially malicious content.

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=maytag+service+manual
    • http://files.sustainablesubstrates.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408024/a59272d44.pdf
    • http://files.goldengobletrestaurant.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384605/raruxolepukeb_zobibemupinu_femivaji_xajavevom.pdf
    • http://files.erikaschool.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775286/surewo_bipizejupowekuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9755/4084/files/suboxikedudokuti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0803/2922/files/supanavabox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7564/1247/files/viva_pinata_guid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48975286879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5297/2697/files/xukaxozugeziw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0605/7883/files/33448023770.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1386/4604/files/anythink_chilton_library.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0541/0471/files/75670099835.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6717/9165/files/zekusakuxusizafesomedekop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8217/7946/files/vuwipabil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9602/9864/files/10140220381.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_off000067ca.bin
58da22aa4216509f6f8332d3ee3ade30a3c4d503fdbc72bff69ae9d4217a439d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67CA 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078f0.bin
bf0b7d48d1ed1a954e1df512f77fb53a626fe79c03e4acf4f993e9d5c20cc2f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78F0 10728 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009da7.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DA7 4324 bytes