Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b747d2f7be923836…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 13:48:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 115c194417390405ce49cba393c521fa SHA-1: d959bd8ece7cc077f8f30d9d706aee8ad80668f0 SHA-256: b747d2f7be9238368c2a0b4031f374d23de000b48b28507043e18a72d30dc37f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify, designed to obscure the ultimate destination. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier also 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.com/wb?keyword=all%20of%20me%20partitura%20piano%20pdf%20facil
    • http://mepezol.myanmaryouthchoices.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874633/nizusafakal.pdf
    • http://files.drbgeography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454355/mopiwapon_duzuvus_jofowexafobuj_kunuguziriruv.pdf
    • http://vafuxi.stambrosefostercity.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380158/1931245.pdf
    • http://files.agelessinwesterncanada.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380083/65f62107db.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7835/2022/files/resume_for_assistant_professor_in_engineering_college.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2655/3752/files/dafexenomobeladidiberoju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3830/1590/files/65708082014.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1510/0822/files/legupejapusigasa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4197/9553/files/92759734966.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2216/3876/files/67809014282.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1535/6067/files/tye_tribbett_everything.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/gefojigebabom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7941/7504/files/dibis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7015/2088/files/55064184510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9812/0094/files/mirozadagozazanol.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_off000066b0.bin
40a489ec09027de76b5adc95850a67b1624c33cb58acc19d8385c4750180644d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66B0 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007800.bin
d62f217a3153f5c1dce90088220c243b33a522949a79d5bb55ffe8488b4eba81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7800 11328 bytes