Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac64c9af7c9489d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.0 KB Created: 2020-09-02 00:04:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f3e20f7332d4e3e1c7d0de8403bc4204 SHA-1: 329429008eda7877aa110410eb950970ed019ecf SHA-256: ac64c9af7c9489d58c9ed39f923d6f2ba17cc1f73790475097b2e0a10b403f62
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URL, https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=ekaterina+imdb+parents+guide, is likely the primary lure. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of SEO link farm abuse. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious links strongly suggests a phishing or scam attempt.

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.club/wix?keyword=ekaterina+imdb+parents+guide
    • https://cdn.shopi
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0306/7044/files/88163439587.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9900/4827/files/batman_arkham_city_dlc_ps3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1403/7397/files/xugifufobelejen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4910/6073/files/fabobozal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6895/6565/files/jibewotomuzerilolotexobis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7348/4438/files/91536272370.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e35fb9174f764b579e129f622a8f2444.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87a178_750d71a2d4ad4200b3761c4f94d8797d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87a178_eed240de5ad54e34954ebf96f904ebb5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12daa7_f5dfaf05f14c473680b3fbca3076a31c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f66acebd9c5a44d2b41c188da780c883.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/353d00_39e8f33b34e54be2a80f1d98ea3a942d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b41a9a_62339eaf29374ad29a874c8d59a113a4.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_off00009220.bin
d440ffbed0f1b0b63b6b899abd82d081d1acb71c78cf4edfaf575553d849d3b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9220 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a46f.bin
7478c751f4a0b22ff5a9115df7870d5dd0759b6741579a2265e17588dcd238a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA46F 10120 bytes