Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd5e5ed02183d01d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-23 03:38:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1c49926e2672632f3710e5945eb89a6b SHA-1: 03ccb9b09277360bf795ef8cc3331a5bff468f77 SHA-256: bd5e5ed02183d01d51c419aad41e27414bd2a6974dd9eaef7f274dcf4648a0d3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as a bilingual dictionary. This indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same lure text and URL. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious activity is the redirection to the ttraff.com URL.

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=bilingual+french+english+dictionary+pdf
    • http://joweta.edgeprogram.info/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814017/2276797.pdf
    • http://fubivare.skateteamindy.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303093/f6d1d9cb9afd4be.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9488/2984/files/mrityunjay_kadambari_in_marathi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9353/2573/files/bed_colleges_in_telangana_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/8815/1458/files/bahubali_1_songs_tamil_isaimini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8127/7342/files/ruluzadunovunazufizeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5041/8847/files/98758428516.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7272/4885/files/6134619571.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9888/1704/files/rejoxobewubalex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1954/2434/files/51119394501.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4603/4853/files/lebezogitegunu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0386/1401/files/36284359307.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7692/0220/files/k_michelle_son.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ca0.bin
19da13ad3e36d48c192261c30ea76c05de13ffbac72ca07d19822bee162aa731
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CA0 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f24.bin
2076e8c73818a6aee9fd64c3cda7303533663771a12160962e24168e93158cc2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F24 10308 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000926a.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x926A 4324 bytes