Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9491f722cede4d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-07-29 22:55:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e0945e0b7e1ceef36308e6987991cb25 SHA-1: 701e30399bcb75738d9f995eba90b6e5df189c06 SHA-256: b9491f722cede4d08c7639d4a33a784df2e83c33f0f4c5f971a3ce6f6e682143
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of a link to 'ttraff.com' suggests a redirection to potentially malicious content or a phishing site. The large number of Shopify links indicates a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or distributing further payloads.

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=ambarella+s5+pdf
    • http://files.wlcbands.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/2769e0d94.pdf
    • http://files.dnp.be/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606491/lujakutizenoroje.pdf
    • http://files.petermichaeldavison.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738693/7226190.pdf
    • http://files.jesuschristreturning.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775583/5485676.pdf
    • http://files.wlcbands.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/1316
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9421/1750/files/mezigasimusexifutezumasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0580/4698/files/rufalo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0558/3266/files/lexixibilirewuvigote.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2330/9727/files/30135551033.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5258/9465/files/mowenoferagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13879903487.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5486/5320/files/jejasinoxedo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/26714247770.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0467/1646/files/49784247919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wojifuxazax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5104/9370/files/fizelit.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_off0000744a.bin
1e3db6c42cd5c27fda0d2152a30e319b045385bb8db1b11bb9c0435769b532d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x744A 4884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000084d6.bin
201a58f2baf4ae8aec86de86f709f7ed035d3086efefa917f47d3b08bef3c91b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84D6 14908 bytes