Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1617196e4a78bb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 16:11:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b6561f373381fe3b0ebb076a2200c184 SHA-1: 5872f4ac42abb37e29e8cad845d97a201f334ac8 SHA-256: c1617196e4a78bb830cff57648e999d7fd69cb2fa7ceec6ad8d70cdb89ce4584
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain, ttraff.com. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attack designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL, reinforcing the phishing lure.

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.com/pify?keyword=principles+of+naval+architecture+vol+iii+pdf
    • http://gekar.deymetta.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776644/zepevudetuvuf.pdf
    • http://files.academyofdancend.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775645/2695219.pdf
    • http://moduzul.cissnaparklibrary.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/darazasa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5757/8138/files/anisocoria_trauma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/tigogedejunewobajasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4396/3548/files/titojabododi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6189/3534/files/english_to_german_basic_words.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2060/6885/files/18539265522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6268/9946/files/gezara.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4057/5381/files/genetically_modified_organisms_in_agriculture_economics_and_politics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1415/1589/files/81204628656.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1386/4615/files/61509264237.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6212/2903/files/disetivazusuwazogapukepuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1808/2711/files/konefeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2426/8968/files/rumovivefabunevowisove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5624/1557/files/68642253132.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_off00004994.bin
364696beda6096c732167ce364f10f8cbcdf83b83e9d01e0369636293fab563c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4994 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b94.bin
9b8848035074e379ec8cdfd2f49c8b36ca5524f83f6a7df5f30502efb8d45a63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B94 6032 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00006b27.bin
f35d78690849e9a352869255997ada656ca736ed806a56a167aca21026fa929d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B27 9500 bytes