Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c02d33c47be3294a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-09-04 23:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b68a81801a019351c659ce504bb11994 SHA-1: 615c4432215deef6224a470f469699042b3a9958 SHA-256: c02d33c47be3294a789d3f5e09f9fc19742e7a3c28ee84ad5736251e079adcd3
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with 30 links pointing to PDF files hosted on Shopify. One of these links, https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=av+malformation+brain+stem, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=av+malformation+brain+stem
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6153/4111/files/causes_of_depression_in_students.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3782/6973/files/92942862838.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/9521/1429/files/91524364804.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7637/1110/files/bbc_articles_for_ielts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8419/3696/files/29515503457.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2159/6834/files/34075638935.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6897/1418/files/98177214706.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0078/1208/files/29204964532.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1135/8372/files/jopiletewef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3601/6802/files/nesidedivovof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7276/6631/files/throwing_up_emoticons.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/90067119925.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6196/7013/files/78599448497.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/46429b_86f99c1ff0ce4df19eb44c8005a4ce34.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f64db8_61840ea9def74f7fb620b419a1df6318.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/df4650_327c81ad6cc64cd8becd1f8e36c88958.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d3eeb3ced771494d89cdb5f217548af8.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_off000067d4.bin
8cfcfb5dffb11b7cf0471dfa2c2dd317f8bf62a29bc85b7e9e91fc9c82bf3f6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67D4 5104 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000791d.bin
039c1c4d2d51fa7f140bde43325722ca4cd42664e89697d66ed204f0c8f80baa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x791D 10296 bytes