Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99ef018a65f91853…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.4 KB Created: 2020-08-25 10:13:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c3a62f30bee0467f54908f0d2d6d13c SHA-1: 485d5a0617968403afd0804d1b93ddb066991f39 SHA-256: 99ef018a65f91853b7cddde554b6d74c9da59772ff63599c451c4ba029167526
152 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.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, including several on cdn.shopify.com and other unknown hosts. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern appears to be the distribution of malicious links, potentially for SEO manipulation or to lead users to further 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.cc/pify?keyword=advanced+calculus+book
    • http://files.hoopstraining.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406435/momodara-tokupazukeka.pdf
    • http://lesifikob.lexingtonservicesolutions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682646/famiwa.pdf
    • http://nopom.whittierhsclassof1964.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682646/c91ea00bff.pdf
    • http://files.bellacalore.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814279/mumubimogamu-fupedevumebat-ropetiwajo.pdf
    • http://files.victorystrengthandfitness.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740012/sisuruxuve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1044/8795/files/10552074744.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4582/6210/files/arduino_robot_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3192/4629/files/ds2_old_iron_king.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4112/8601/files/b_ed_exam_form_2019_ccs_university.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7731/2411/files/86390563468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6196/8025/files/tanekipigos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0105/2312/files/64904718756.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4115/3439/files/no_10_envelope_template_indesign.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_off0000435b.bin
e8950e682858eef782fa5734803803fc8846da3abdf648077d181be079e6db02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x435B 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000054bb.bin
7ea848aa852067092ed38099589d3208ba5f4fc1979dbeb38e1a71e27d3ccf84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54BB 9640 bytes