Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e7978db772e2ee3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-16 18:36:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 34afa23ab2ae526b9bf022ec8a810861 SHA-1: 76a4882882420869238d4102c6bd97ada80f3ee8 SHA-256: 9e7978db772e2ee308bc37c1800ac49b05e51d63b7d90a2a3362e620aa568aa9
152 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, directing users to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body also contains this URL, along with numerous other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to attract traffic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary intent appears to be redirecting users to malicious infrastructure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=escape+plan+2+movie+parents+guide
    • http://sawir.southwestharbormaine.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303124/5515417.pdf
    • http://midag.hackneykeepournhspublic.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071021/beluvowog.pdf
    • http://siwoko.unlimitedpotentialaz.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383965/832714.pdf
    • http://files.marialosee.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814856/6224209.pdf
    • http://files.arlingtonreformedchurch.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739769/2721911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1000/6940/files/18417348119.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5435/7910/files/azitromicina_600mg_bula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9494/8517/files/45402243214.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0256/7588/files/xutufitosovomo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7074/9856/files/currency_and_capital_of_all_countries_in_the_world.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0396/9689/files/gitamekozepokewoko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3726/8900/files/pathophysiology_of_severe_malaria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5426/0643/files/dabufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4445/1990/files/behavioral_finance_lecture_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1675/7153/files/92545453247.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51220099535.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_off00007c36.bin
c10b117afad1a03f7f5ef7723359154d43a5a123294e0ed0bb0ab08169c9ebd6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C36 5540 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008efd.bin
5be9977f8ec0be04324a15c57bf712da7fbb57228bc636ce15118853657afc6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EFD 10456 bytes