Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b209a8d53292ad44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 16:43:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 185ac459acb2265910e46b00985bf9d1 SHA-1: 108271646a1a235b98893ee613d592c14265c932 SHA-256: b209a8d53292ad4414f64241789b833f40799c3e142836934cbfb2c18aef6242
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of a link farm. One of the primary links redirects through 'ttraff.cc', a known malicious redirector. The document body itself is largely obfuscated but contains the same redirector URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure users to malicious sites.

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=how+do+you+describe+yourself+answer
    • http://files.annblackburnpoetry.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969699/d4d48.pdf
    • http://lavuwef.landrumdc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/solixo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5031/1579/files/hp_officejet_6500_e710n_z.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8062/3015/files/xokigemabogipabinevisavib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7506/6273/files/dibigipate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9562/1796/files/worutij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3876/9303/files/98082000745.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6859/6123/files/jeep_grand_cherokee_parts_catalog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7147/9709/files/61569122859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nakawefefaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tivaluzisezulumavolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3723/6119/files/numeros_romanos_del_1_al_10000_completos.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_off00005c84.bin
b333f470b7343fe782460912f0f1aa2b405ab57e0ece0592a1671109814a6fa6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C84 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006eb3.bin
88af0d14783bd18e54834be4b38d4dcc8c9d53808c9aba8ac65d4f132831af9d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EB3 9932 bytes