Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e4e172c2d773ebb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-21 01:21:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 30e6f2ab97a67208917607b23ddec615 SHA-1: b13915aef025565ee337100eb6ffc6e150f1228a SHA-256: 9e4e172c2d773ebb11c7ad250f175f9137ac3b79a99736206f9db76846a1566c
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. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and appears to be a lure related to 'untitled hymn piano sheet music pdf'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.com redirector, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content.

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=untitled+hymn+piano+sheet+music+pdf
    • http://files.pashminaforme.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163620/zuzekudiz-fipasalepa-rujujofi-nuvavuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7434/5365/files/xufovaviwefape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7100/3037/files/67218879605.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0673/0144/files/15882638121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9488/2984/files/4200141245.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4991/8374/files/11292082587.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5477/5970/files/jofetudakeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8286/6083/files/vikabi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3444/7770/files/web_accessibility_checker.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4351/8614/files/bibibibadufulajafutok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1687/1336/files/34886352379.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8670/8893/files/windows_98_img.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_off00004f00.bin
be72897a735dbffba6630999928c2e803f1cab6141c946549ae2b30e483c95e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F00 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006136.bin
f8ab863af536828b6355e602cb9a571e0e231352536222dd43dff7d031481d6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6136 15024 bytes