Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c04ae6106698d399…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:38:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 12928e1a704c1f1507b5b60c0cfd5468 SHA-1: d010c9dacb677a952f3ff138fdcddd8fe5eaf1d5 SHA-256: c04ae6106698d399153af65dd1d6c82c9f6a81bd0fdb640271853a0a12efdc7e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.com`. This suggests a link farm or redirection strategy to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=formato+de+apgar+familiar
    • http://files.dhcraftwork.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775021/fojuni.pdf
    • http://files.sophisticatedpress.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681501/nepinovasujavizoros.pdf
    • http://files.mccrackenceramics.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069764/pazofeximi.pdf
    • http://files.negsbestthing.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815961/riwemuto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6009/1287/files/nananidefupawov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5844/5979/files/54472182023.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5013/9801/files/romafenujaleto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7410/1149/files/77384177753.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1149/6343/files/sibawavevutitixexabotiwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8561/0654/files/5334736037.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4891/9450/files/93803570753.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4783/0183/files/zisefuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xifadek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5937/9357/files/ahmadiyya_books_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5544/7202/files/physical_asset_management_handbook.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_off00006c68.bin
901fb80b862103bd15fd6eafddc3a807a8b6113c526577e8d78eb60665627c45
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C68 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007dd1.bin
70a83233555bc3f5ad912d964bcb1e17720a4e549615efe1c046eba2c61fdddb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DD1 11064 bytes