Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b456a3578e53707a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 14:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fdd641d847f44810008f125042b48d6e SHA-1: 325b0e8488a29fe048093cb30bbdba4b9986f5d3 SHA-256: b456a3578e53707abc219c042d1695144b61f741799743fddeeaf9d9c0f5d8d4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting seemingly benign PDF files. However, one critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc. This suggests the document is part of a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish users by directing them through malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=el+liberalismo+clasico+pdf
    • http://files.awryministries.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069869/cf7150999521.pdf
    • http://files.hollingsworthhemp.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453177/jureduvijivowamixu.pdf
    • http://files.naturalsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/levaluvibezuleg.pdf
    • http://files.bossybastienne.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738893/4f75725.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6746/4093/files/pdf_to_dwg_converter_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4655/2227/files/27248460571.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7159/4911/files/45295889523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5158/8507/files/sewokaxegukisodife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6877/5841/files/auto_mechanic_test_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/90442425312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5874/8822/files/pozonebisavisoruwogowip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3136/2725/files/pevorakafanaxoko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9313/9364/files/15468226450.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4029/1486/files/8317862215.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_off000064c9.bin
924db3754e68a334d2b4d7af46a7037d4e4f1cb48755d05b8910b287160f0a29
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64C9 5400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007708.bin
8c6bd9c4e7af35aa282a0fa32cf0ea14df29e1f80e59e34a659debf8e8852ca4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7708 11028 bytes