Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98774aaf8a0df989…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:53:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 00f0ee48e6177801591b679447ff2aed SHA-1: 5635496320f4331dc32b3b80982dac0338c75c17 SHA-256: 98774aaf8a0df98981301a150d1022ae5dc27413562d58395bcb9584660f6ccf
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm pattern, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/wix?keyword=moulin+a+eau+fonctionnement
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6866/1670/files/judavup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5586/6263/files/tepuperipegezurupovuboba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4104/5145/files/31141829806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/0765/6355/files/53168132830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0233/9232/files/98347701693.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05900a_4058465faafc4c7dab3a90c93f272be8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b6edda_fa13704a747f4fa5b715baac250a6768.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c4988329c7404ffa87ceea3411f0b592.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e3a8db40e6624ff2b65cd536ca64170b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b2c09_d4086394b15b49e2ae2ee49c2eca66c1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5174/5442/files/cations_and_anions_list_with_symbols.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7661/6346/files/77883220377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6641/7571/files/90038899456.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7826/2689/files/78003464841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6919/1832/files/35865282566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5932/8662/files/wetajefatiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/9278/files/mathematics_formula_for_ssc_cgl_exam.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_off00008b8a.bin
edb753ef9bde54d8d5f2fa1287332efa91e9fc34c55a35fa2186589f50eedb78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B8A 4756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009bb6.bin
668bf0da6c84824150bc85f92fbd248e45421a7abed2b827971d8e3040e4cd5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BB6 12896 bytes