Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3ccfd74df27166e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 20:52:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d19ab0650566073543ba4ed10d2e279b SHA-1: 23eae164238e0bfe9fb13297a49b36b4d9773124 SHA-256: b3ccfd74df27166eb6c54b6b529e2e4dd07156abef199b95aa20cf920c77f854
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link disguised as a headphone manual, which redirects to a known malicious URL (ttraff.cc). The document also functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous other PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier 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.cc/pify?keyword=plantronics+backbeat+fit+bluetooth+headphones+manual
    • http://files.17leaves.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696483/5466374.pdf
    • http://pegitufa.rftmedicaleducation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406286/wuzedukemumapej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4859/8678/files/python_script_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1108/3160/files/shinobi_origin_trello.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3669/5959/files/51463948307.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1279/2225/files/hunger_games_1_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7065/1542/files/70844409620.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3010/1668/files/wavaxakate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0833/4744/files/current_trends_in_education.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3482/9223/files/mudatevowexule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9628/6111/files/99208248445.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8860/1503/files/schismatoglottis_calyptrata.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dojezurin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6913/7305/files/6282915966.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_off000053ce.bin
ce04927667a83d1be1538e97bb9f02f85b88e2b14f4ba3f1cb2d2e174ab4bb03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53CE 5600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000066a1.bin
8cf13ceb336c625150d07edb1370dbc3550559ee9ad51a8b305ce3ebadd04c0b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66A1 15772 bytes