Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae4ee4dfc58de00c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:16:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f88bc2842f038a6b5f22eb9f27b50808 SHA-1: 4878c9f4d36a77cd1a5efa6ca3b66e1296a8b5a7 SHA-256: ae4ee4dfc58de00cc3ec29ba43fdff342d4580600c17209252df5a9686eb08ee
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Firefox older version' and the malicious URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to shopify.com, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=firefox+older+version
    • http://nekegej.kettlecornnc.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070934/zixomid-mozutizamifam-lazudu.pdf
    • http://files.thebirdiebox.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682204/wexikenokunubul-tekunu-pojusibinodijed.pdf
    • http://files.donnaliberalistore.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681826/9086646.pdf
    • http://files.flequipment-neelyville.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813511/440ccec1a72.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1103/0683/files/83013763961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6338/6016/files/48588019787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1789/5068/files/22845949270.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3716/9576/files/bleacher_report_college_football_week_5_picks.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3645/8654/files/76968011793.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2852/7776/files/zunowupiwunosunuge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3444/files/35850773304.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5871/6054/files/24624629752.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3078/8758/files/ultimate_member_shortcodes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7641/9744/files/22073255829.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4145/4240/files/63444295080.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6581/7753/files/fojuroxogixivuze.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_off00005461.bin
ebbb4e4e2f66078e8b3e63e8ceddc6d344f4eaa75c2e61b730e4afef95b57813
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5461 4772 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064b7.bin
e241dc7902a0d212c38b4b732a4a26969f3fbebd009ac306e744cabd2ff81aca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64B7 12256 bytes