Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb55e715308b31fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.7 KB Created: 2020-08-07 19:34:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d8b8e186cba6b76bcb144e56ed2f2d0d SHA-1: 98efd170d113baace03bc0d72aa00778e036da54 SHA-256: bb55e715308b31fbc81ec851c13e0a42a41389c8cc1921ad63f5ecd266decdc1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into clicking it. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com', indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the final malicious destination. 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=genetic+engineering+and+biotechnology+pdf
    • http://files.wisconsinbaroque.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637853/bigudoxagulik.pdf
    • http://files.migueljuliobeauty.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384589/voragazolojogaz_sazifozurewude_wuzus_begebuxeduza.pdf
    • http://files.balancemassagebyann.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776594/fivofowanuxafiz_tegitexanonudi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8812/4830/files/is_xi_a_scrabble_word.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7325/7116/files/50576820742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7068/4317/files/53676100696.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4017/files/78519601390.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vaxopegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9101/7374/files/gokusidisuzuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1011/2163/files/biology_notes_for_class_9_icse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6617/9230/files/jobazokamexonemuxagej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zobirunutopuwipigodilig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9954/6009/files/kajemisunaverokad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/4512890224.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bijalikupuxamimidesedol.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_off0001982d.bin
9442d4291fa0a39f44c7b2173e4382f5feb14543fae1de7cd099c4feac8ea55b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1982D 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001aaf1.bin
4429b4b95c2b27894d8fef514f3a061aeb68aed79e4d01395f54ed2c0ce969a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AAF1 13260 bytes