Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a409398a7cc70140…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 00:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c5b488cca453a0ae5d9ea517ae024cb4 SHA-1: 961e115e73744d17dbcfccdb5b9435194eb53a6e SHA-256: a409398a7cc70140eeaddbeb2dd025e3c9d66dbaf82985f3544a475aa9800178
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or traffic redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to soil degradation and pollution, likely a lure to entice users to click the malicious links.

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=degradacion+y+contaminacion+del+suelo+pdf
    • http://files.baarleproeft.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738919/pibezemoxez-wutimegabadi-juwif.pdf
    • http://files.columbapoetry.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739309/812cbd.pdf
    • http://files.pilgrimagetobeauty.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969458/sopadofikaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0041/4883/files/lefuvevowosaxadumonif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3450/7426/files/baramejadaxepo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7804/1244/files/8547549336.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2067/3433/files/71502600041.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8448/9631/files/vojeropuporon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5204/7263/files/91006559476.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3525/5203/files/podajotiramaxowa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9641/6157/files/74325757584.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4141/4552/files/kazebibitu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4555/1271/files/fejafuzozewu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6337/7048/files/67784726660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5336/5910/files/sivinajavo.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_off000068af.bin
d56da67907dd2f445081c76dd8bf8efa9ed0cbdd43898b15e3c89f6fdb35c44f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68AF 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ba6.bin
013e6031f8edce4d8079b5750c8985415fdc2d8701fa6a9829e287de4041a32e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BA6 11124 bytes