Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a492146cee26c943…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-23 15:38:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 174e1c3c89f5637a91851a7eb3a6a6d3 SHA-1: ab567e37fe5f887977035c5a1e5fadd31540079d SHA-256: a492146cee26c9432e86bbf42dc19a396ec129e9f0df205b53b61014b1584bd1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector service, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the true destination of the malicious content. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the same redirector URL and several Shopify-hosted PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure victims. No scripts were extracted, and the primary malicious behavior appears to be redirection via embedded 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=fcc+bcc+hcp+crystal+structure+pdf
    • http://files.coffeehour.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814340/e379672e02ffc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5876/4696/files/ksb_butterfly_valve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3385/4103/files/weferepuduwituw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/91894720033.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2548/9305/files/gixefoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2642/3701/files/pdf_butterfly_coloring_pages.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8306/2695/files/cbse_board_exam_time_table_2020_class_12_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0121/5138/files/xidedumafitil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5353/9747/files/grimtooth_s_ultimate_traps_collection_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5123/7032/files/vevemelifobavedomiwuxog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1628/0469/files/wawiwapapedadagop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2668/3816/files/performance_testing_acceptance_criteria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4211/1641/files/74246210686.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7144/6939/files/89543540786.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_off000060b1.bin
24f4ab5fe0d7a4090a393c149a86f9ff10b7acd54d560d279c56410580dcd0a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60B1 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007325.bin
807afca4ea6f6ec571734cf43e5a85f982af781a96d870b2a20dc3a2e5824a2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7325 11000 bytes