Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8b536b4ca98c5fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-31 17:08:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 37b5bbc2909b39586ad09f5ff8098095 SHA-1: 1d6907e6591afdda12913cf3c0441303d578901b SHA-256: b8b536b4ca98c5fdbc40c8e48b9a3c3629562d201427d7793bdf959af62b082e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, which is indicative of a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to 'ttraff.com', a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of a malicious redirector suggests this PDF is part of a campaign to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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/wix?keyword=chopped+and+screwed+app+for+android
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9923/5228/files/85630551061.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2806/2109/files/method_parameters_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9269/5456/files/6825336425.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4346/1032/files/stock_valuation_report_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1789/5068/files/razapagulixibixewonozowo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9219f8_90598e7681db4a8a9abc3ced227afed7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bad4b69883224d7d8273a374c929be27.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9532/6887/files/mortal_kombat_x_ermac_combo_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6265/6165/files/nazi_uniform_badges_for_sale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7554/2950/files/61986687754.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/96280370261.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4907/4336/files/made_in_chelsea_season_18_episode_guide.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_off00006ec1.bin
d9660f5a3da16db8292d21a69d7ac82c8fd2e377d95e741ebcc4fdd96f3ab3e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EC1 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008081.bin
c315224d14afd95a8cfa81d78991c3934139066ddb6361ddd2029d81c6a7475f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8081 10300 bytes