Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b9999483f892217…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:20:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fb6cd2dc6ef51f2273a1a7ee2feb7930 SHA-1: b3387c2d6947816ac5e04ec943f325ce17f09a94 SHA-256: 9b9999483f8922176e21522938dc1d1a791a26cc34afbb806bcd83d82c25f943
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains a critical heuristic firing for a PDF redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is known malicious infrastructure. The document body also contains this URL and numerous other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or redirection attempt. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely serves as a gateway to a phishing or malware distribution page.

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=beauty+behind+the+madness+zip+sharebeast
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7738/6918/files/vabawelasizused.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/0210/2682/files/31846836215.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6598/2632/files/xujimujipubumug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5934/7618/files/83596916041.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/2962/6781/files/sekefitowepilokoremibadum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8801/1673/files/80620360138.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8758fbd13a154e019d46c88081db4d8f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7e39c992a4b74e0f9d33056ae11eda31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/455f95_bcf112894da740b3be552920d7bcd4e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1293287e7e3a44c29aaaaa3d9496ddd4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0805/6740/files/rejeludanorizexakosezuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3264/9636/files/494593630.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_off00005eda.bin
6265daf2609b9222c008ebe5ac288e935257ad1f164e38304aac50c48b313f74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EDA 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007164.bin
a9aa53f41c79507f789dcbf4cf3ca6161aea3f803b1e7d2e14f549bfb784af26
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7164 10408 bytes