Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c110bccceccde352…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 11:58:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 15f74563adbea023a2a7a3977885c909 SHA-1: 01639375d3d9437d40084b61dd9ae00c1843764b SHA-256: c110bccceccde352ff8d579c62edc628e1f9dad9d5aced14a73c265b79277539
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'convert pdf to word software', suggesting a lure. The presence of many external links, including those hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic and distribute malicious content. 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=convert+pdf+to+word+software+filehippo
    • http://files.chennaitiffinssandiego.us/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813934/926b3ba66.pdf
    • http://files.ballerinabites.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682676/9850100.pdf
    • http://files.rusticocuisinetx.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606206/vixekiwano.pdf
    • http://files.spearfishspartanwrestling.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381414/822423.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7222/5442/files/15337046878.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0971/2033/files/47457960960.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9100/0472/files/bondage_pics_megathreat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2715/9448/files/talking_heads_discography.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6277/1366/files/29352676072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/32823332632.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5654/6467/files/14284874192.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1572/4456/files/27696453975.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4160/4263/files/bukemoxitedimubi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/17418425376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0525/4566/files/mevomojaxiwutane.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8605/3527/files/taneropuvafot.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_off000071dc.bin
e3dc00bb2a08560d24f606f43a2fefe921b19618e178fd11f2ab63e6b8729787
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71DC 5184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000838a.bin
7d4b16d3de905f813c9a308131e7c12199d55684f98706cd83223e5889b67106
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x838A 10468 bytes