Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab1d2bd0cf112c31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.8 KB Created: 2020-09-12 13:26:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d5daa98e20d9479fd670fdd98df504ae SHA-1: ddca7880ecf8bfe587802a5979d8598c30a0a77d SHA-256: ab1d2bd0cf112c31ca12576f1c81fdcde066e7a1a0a77e73ae5a5448d1defd58
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URL `https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=polymorphism+biotransformation+enzymes` is likely the initial lure. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to increase visibility of the malicious redirector.

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.me/wix?keyword=polymorphism+biotransformation+enzymes
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a2e4_1e47b6aac30f45f08313dd1928a3db25.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63f22d_eeddac57349e4e5ea1345d932ec23ed2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/16a96a_32cd861d5bbe40c3a336da9ba540c1ba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8213/0332/files/mopopezunalox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7968/6549/files/karya_tulis_ilmiah_tentang_bahaya_merokok_dikalangan_pelajar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6923/3565/files/31836307398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0061/7381/files/free_letterhead_template_word.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4900/0864/files/58482495361.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1468/3815/files/subad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6581/8789/files/23901309468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6622/8898/files/65584406887.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_off0000941f.bin
425d6a7e556d0e8194079a87551ea1d204660ef8edba12bb5d1fa012ed4c741c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x941F 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a67a.bin
096c3fb3cb67c84ef8ed9fc2ea1de4d60305f9a5261171edba62807e4afb51aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA67A 10492 bytes