Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c99e08ba1d59d45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 09:19:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d39713463a83dbac038d49447efa31b SHA-1: 49c1175af3e18ebdf361de9732b20efccd2cdba7 SHA-256: 9c99e08ba1d59d45c23ec9eb845dbe366db98dd4fbe2d259fb6851f0d799aeb4
152 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 features a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, with the primary one leading to a Shopify domain. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=chapter+13+to+kill+a+mockingbird+pdf' is the most critical IOC, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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/pify?keyword=chapter+13+to+kill+a+mockingbird+pdf
    • http://files.bexleyvoice.org.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483371/domudugogosa.pdf
    • http://files.hfchurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379730/tareza_fuvoku_sazopilajutuzi.pdf
    • http://files.wiedivers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739621/lipuvapukabezew.pdf
    • http://files.sysenartworks.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695734/2ad3eef91.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0156/0737/files/82815493122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2499/7800/files/kofoloxusosabudojulon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0112/4760/files/nozove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5326/0701/files/zomovuwotibe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9461/4940/files/tezunut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2641/4749/files/49780047895.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2002/4989/files/91564834023.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9720/1567/files/53396990099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9665/7320/files/minoko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6550/8002/files/kenujanomejuvodor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97428896976.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_off0000a779.bin
387a38fe192d9d7fb8aaadadbcb73f336f361fb202252a75911e686a0c2c9747
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA779 5716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bac3.bin
ad3250b5c854402a7d6e95064e9f0f43b9884fc80539e972fc5964d19bbaf928
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAC3 10324 bytes