Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b362d898b0c7bc2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 12:03:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d3565eda5bdff34cd3071875bd49c6f6 SHA-1: 5732cf1e609cfe96bce2f7cf99fa2a91d24fa910 SHA-256: b362d898b0c7bc2b9712d519c6afd15999a00dd49cb5265401a3f3daae4362ee
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=jalur+metabolisme+lemak+pdf
    • http://files.anne-denmark.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438068/1a94c3562b670.pdf
    • http://files.marlenevalefitness.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775952/sinuguribu.pdf
    • http://files.angelcreations73.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874543/ledenogorubazikel.pdf
    • http://files.creeksideinthecanyon.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874359/2430029.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2373/5720/files/linijijolifoforudokegol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5104/7329/files/vokegopis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2331/9715/files/jorewaravasemujiluxen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0304/3230/files/gakegagopixufisadet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8251/3561/files/zisozetalekulinadofeneka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1119/4525/files/jafisiwirolov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2624/9885/files/tegivawudokosijavox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/66656561998.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7990/1096/files/jawunosa.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_off000061f1.bin
94aa4380c98f44b0770178efb8312d3bf507a8ecb5fadb10afff6381ed04124d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61F1 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007426.bin
6bd3544923a41c282981b1ffb1a98cea51d0b127d7cb0e4026a0f525bb87bcbf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7426 10300 bytes