Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b1601e283876ff0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-09 15:20:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee860d5130232371e07de02cf76cdbea SHA-1: 678c58bae3cf51c537c389a9332df993bbc878f0 SHA-256: 9b1601e283876ff037c39586f176dc5d076c0e193fb15fa96d25d283ab66198f
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.cc, which is designed to lead users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a reference to a book PDF, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the ultimate destination. 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.cc/pify?keyword=bridging+the+gap+book+pdf
    • http://files.hookingforthehomeless.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383478/9042037.pdf
    • http://files.oakwren.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397987/dea36190c.pdf
    • http://zanunigi.cardiac-imaging.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408899/2950374.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9918/9402/files/perfect_attendance_certificate_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9345/1159/files/sudemafebikigodam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9715/3943/files/visopibomawiramin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2381/9175/files/35316482233.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3934/2248/files/25914880661.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1769/9477/files/nefixivene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0812/2270/files/92427754144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0166/6969/files/autocad_2020_new_features.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4990/9415/files/56747972119.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7871/2472/files/badosumikovinob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1725/6603/files/ragewozupojokisifixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4993/4229/files/fizilokixovi.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_off000086b3.bin
ea80ff5f06057b931c3fa9aa3cb602cd8de2650884da216c9eeb80cd046f9459
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86B3 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000098dd.bin
a60b6c128220bef867d99dbb5e19385ac6a760de33653c7e4516cee651ab0e15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98DD 11016 bytes