Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9db953241c1e21c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 00:44:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 065a8767c7876e205929dd5766ad6526 SHA-1: 4b25ea66fc7101908f80e383bb47a9e737eff6c9 SHA-256: 9db953241c1e21c9b344f260906c8344b45d3337ef088ecbf55f16dad29567a7
150 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 text related to a calculus textbook and the URL itself, suggesting a lure. The PDF also exhibits a link farm behavior, with numerous links pointing to Shopify domains, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=calculus+early+transcendentals+10th+edition+anton+bivens+davis+pdf
    • http://favowin.thistlenthornfloral.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814989/viwidimup-viliwup.pdf
    • http://files.bogardfarmsllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438240/3848cf256.pdf
    • http://files.angeltouchbynursenclark.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695942/5197180.pdf
    • http://files.historicredrooster.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814200/kebepeporur_pesisezugezila_banigiv_sogaxas.pdf
    • http://files.borobot.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710700/6859140.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/55498441650.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2355/7030/files/ximexepixogixuwej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0316/6369/files/xunevagavi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/pifozidop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5802/1027/files/pelilorazeviropumupival.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6513/0658/files/51390444741.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4517/4939/files/latutevikokibopimejad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5951/0425/files/singapore_mrt_map_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8573/9670/files/47232515161.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7937/6798/files/tedopatofo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3640/2079/files/jotevim.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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9e8f7c5e96348d95cbe357cda982e501a9a9705ae10cc2a8a9e6febce2ed21b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63FE 5644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000772b.bin
f3b18cd78465bebf0291d318fbedc8e0d083654ddbb9494d1a66473b4c54d99d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x772B 10076 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009975.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9975 4324 bytes