Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5c12b9b64179fa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2020-07-29 10:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e16fdb44f33dbfa8b5afcc9d2c10c376 SHA-1: ecd654d50b5f3f1be76e8bb5961429e1e6d7deb3 SHA-256: b5c12b9b64179fa0890298bdff4fde18231de2028ca6f5f7f4c8fa55682fcf4a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lure users into malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to binary options and PDF, suggesting a phishing or scam lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine visibility for malicious content. The ML classifier 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=teachaz+binary+options+pdf
    • http://files.mojohomeautomation.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739974/3d41d0928e.pdf
    • http://files.sagehealth.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636807/jiwuxipezajigi_bukimepisadago_logodal_movitexezojibis.pdf
    • http://files.zionweekdayministries.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775509/bc4e56.pdf
    • http://files.vintuitivewmt.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131859895/8631971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6454/0840/files/bepasunotazowosol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6596/6754/files/86624807003.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0378/1015/files/87368305889.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8202/3061/files/27251243470.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5682/files/sabimurutonuzibaja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5369/4626/files/jemomulu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6490/1270/files/1138316492.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2290/7554/files/jamuxenibaleregevaxidij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5049/9222/files/jerawovatakerone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4841/8973/files/lelepopuwivawu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6599/7472/files/xabadedomaxipemes.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_off0000d126.bin
f7bdf830fcc0d98ff7085c0b34ee520bf68ce14ca3acbbd0dafadb131216c7b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD126 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2f0.bin
03116d4cfa55afcb148c6d1f033c547dc0a644e8cf0d8a9cf0ca9deedb822895
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F0 10740 bytes