Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a21e8a270b435f02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 08:32:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 96f4ee6ead5bbb64a620b6c8d175ab0b SHA-1: 80547dc4d3b769f170258f73f68d8aa7235517dd SHA-256: a21e8a270b435f025df97de20bbbf474a2c59f51673532c1f0a32d21c485461d
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a high density of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects through ttraff.cc. This redirector is flagged as malicious and is likely used to deliver a secondary payload or lead to a phishing page. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text as the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering attempt to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of numerous links, including the malicious one, indicates a link farm or redirection strategy to obscure the final destination.

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.cc/pify?keyword=dynamatic+technologies+limited+annual+report+2019
    • http://files.voiceinthewood.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381078/4046215.pdf
    • http://files.ouimassachusettslawyer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437425/433dea466b23c03.pdf
    • http://newaf.algonacwrestling.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454012/24279c89c80d0c.pdf
    • http://files.mythoughtfulenglish.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739284/voveraka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5471/9395/files/keketos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2857/7447/files/57037608216.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1172/6750/files/34755184358.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2862/8124/files/calc_3_exam_1_cheat_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6381/3020/files/77275220836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6862/8890/files/boduxonulasod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0412/5599/files/sosapurujaxolu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5095/7974/files/fomotisefixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1608/3877/files/95004055718.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4601/files/behindertenrechtskonvention_der_vereinten_nationen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0193/0143/files/36536384429.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_off0000bfc8.bin
e2fe6c5d25c24903b2b504dcf1651dcb51c5c21a6609360ed4505c1db2ab7630
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFC8 6068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d44a.bin
5bbd310f9542152d1d8fab214b9ae75a123aee79dbdcdac1b56460d124170403
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD44A 10208 bytes