Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9de73a86ca70693f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 10:05:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b8290cba4e60a553e6a322e2b0c58327 SHA-1: 83748f93ce6b942db720cab5a0752c17737afd88 SHA-256: 9de73a86ca70693f6ffefe5de402e415be92035d4214074654c9767029fa0dc1
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting an SEO manipulation or link farm tactic. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which is known to host redirectors. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, likely part of the link farm.

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/wix?keyword=regular+pentagon+angles
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2073/0011/files/ralomofovamotuxitawesaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/muzaloxebomasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9593/2584/files/monochrome_laser_printer_test_page.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2270/4030/files/37693014018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9462/1862/files/port_san_luis_fish_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4283/9455/files/apbn_2020_disahkan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2496/6044/files/pitiludusikejomevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7524/7784/files/blank_christmas_party_templates.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d01287_fcd0adf7d16346bb9d11c7d4300060cf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7dd30d_a8cf1e7313aa45969bc590a3e142151b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/227d0f_7b62b12ecd664e4b896eda27e0c89fbd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67e251_b3af8fec588b4b8ab6c507cf44caaa0d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67e251_594d6142a73f4afd816a247f11069537.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/136d07_365e318bd7d7437481ef427e9389a39e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bdeb4c_89735039cfd348aa8900329a1f31d0d0.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
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf17.bin
9b96f9e85394b7bdde72f35c0af1a5a8fba820da5664fa0c07a3e102b35cfc1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF17 4996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d02a.bin
4107cd86297b534f87e6724aa6c173ccaa5c735f7aec567129575efc03397f64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD02A 16160 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010406.bin
f4fa0d3cee64843fe0c60bab5b730927ef4dd91cd2c415cde2f85921d1cef429
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10406 16232 bytes