Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adb26957cc4a9b60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 23:53:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d964af8cd6b5725b8044cc03205d090c SHA-1: ccb96c4e1e46beaecc5ea3ed6fbb96465f0de633 SHA-256: adb26957cc4a9b6003f26f8babc9a684e294570a35790b9d2fd6fbb820567d72
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a high density of embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. Another heuristic noted a 'PDF link farm' with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through seemingly benign documents. The document body contains garbled text but includes the URL to 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.com/pify?keyword=common+core+math+worksheets+5th+grade
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3484/4059/files/anthraquinone_derivatives.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9996/2024/files/envision_algebra_1_common_core_2018_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7293/8399/files/honda_gc160_repair_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5152/2977/files/48057313374.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6846fe_b759aea823d2403e950cb0cc917ff604.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4417/5013/files/50101432526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0271/4536/files/66525879522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1617/4237/files/goldfinger_99_red_balloons.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2104/0792/files/mumefarerimetatazidedadu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1392/2206/files/74928821549.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8cbfce_50287c8670124bb6a62acf3975b02592.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aed35aa1fc134d989308ae735df3f3d2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/696b8a_f365c071708148b0a5c5b5768f8741e8.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_off00006cf0.bin
bee9a87f48325e4b4a4506770d7003d8f747c1f1e7b982acd3b54600fb295d54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CF0 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f8f.bin
a135ccbfe64847d277b53ef829795045496962006ee414a44c541e1ab96fbcb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F8F 10788 bytes