Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99ea3ebc648350c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 01:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e25d813e9038a570dc392b3950bb6582 SHA-1: c9e24bcbcf8fcda08916c2b1e2efed0e1604db19 SHA-256: 99ea3ebc648350c9e65e93177bd65abf0b167dea325b8e1e940af6a72f1636a9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a reference to 'jonas brothers lyrics', suggesting a lure to attract clicks. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to Shopify, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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/wix?keyword=sos+jonas+brothers+lyrics
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2571/0756/files/how_to_make_friends_and_influence_people.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8113/8343/files/51195993813.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8838/files/wozotev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8799/5807/files/25083168791.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9788/2773/files/kepepawad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3046/3135/files/programmable_metronome_app_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3488/5796/files/gigozatalaxadapaba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5345/7320/files/37877940621.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9439/2485/files/classical_and_neo_classical_theory.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ee79441fcde94d45a23488ab8aedfa4d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c8c60a7e52924ac494b06a0c2cdab01e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a846efa9854d47ff9a344078faf818f2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3884/9696/files/jepamas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9596/4328/files/tutorial_kali_linux_bahasa_indonesia.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_off000061c9.bin
66cd58b218762c28f98e7e9382c914981a6c058493cbc85de5090f3afd068815
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61C9 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073d0.bin
ed11b8d84a827f860284e34813162a88bad8ec2b296fe3ae9d9e3be1bc514fc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73D0 10508 bytes