Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b64970dcafc79325…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-09-03 11:24:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c6a84a93e313ffc22a4bc030b2250e9e SHA-1: ce575b135a80b67f6d99c9f91c9bba86314022fb SHA-256: b64970dcafc79325d8e6cdca4b8a23df4899c30004b358362f8b1a709c840063
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of embedded external links, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=cod+fishing+reports+essex'. While many other URLs were extracted, they were predominantly hosted on shopify.com and classified as benign, indicating they may be used as decoys or part of a broader SEO manipulation strategy. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

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.link/wix?keyword=cod+fishing+reports+essex
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5494/6721/files/prepare_a_flexible_budget_report_for_march.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0976/7584/files/42279453714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/12528950946.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3283b0_31f6bfcf68ed4dd38fb3c2c60768333c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c7ef1a_8bfcf6bf7d2e45ca8e08770595bfb546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0645/2127/files/notimoveboxuvuvumobon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/5743/4015/files/96026555520.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9352/4634/files/laboratory_diagnosis_of_bacterial_infections.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/6749/1750/files/36841165403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5837/1496/files/gabagujetinifelu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4708/3429/files/font_hanacaraka_windows_7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9453/1493/files/beruroto.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_off00008556.bin
d56b5a8a28561679ea966bca4a5ee6797b68124557ad66b2d829d3664c807bb3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8556 5032 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000967a.bin
93240eb004219e0834496114b196b1c1588bf294b27213f162765f4f5717dbd0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x967A 10352 bytes