Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3b3f2c902d6028f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2020-08-05 18:43:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f92b3bb69bb66dc3b738c344bb3d1c09 SHA-1: a856c55c6053c7937b7148224c740847ba8d2244 SHA-256: c3b3f2c902d6028f2bb3ccb77f31b276321a34b4e54d0e1444cc9dd8721efcf5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'Knock em dead pdf download' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering attempt. The presence of numerous links to Shopify, likely part of a link farm, further supports the malicious intent.

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.cc/wb?keyword=knock%20em%20dead%20pdf%20download
    • http://files.updatescentral.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384018/fotimiva_nidanu_gibuvidedavade.pdf
    • http://files.saiddeek.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739285/9374824.pdf
    • http://files.nourishingrootswa.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682048/6221942.pdf
    • http://files.atlanticblueaquariums.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775998/nexaputiwusirotu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7328/2983/files/61252436122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71340125447.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7813/1611/files/54370202961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/84511803825.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9066/3832/files/70020302607.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5258/1542/files/54742463580.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6940/6360/files/descriptive_writing_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6895/6565/files/fitivepapoxipumavi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1118/6588/files/32574043858.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3334/6719/files/3589602959.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6346/7414/files/26910436368.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4703/3752/files/silogulibetudatisemowo.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_off0000e239.bin
ad0ec87a219c55048bd774c86af5c0a6bc0179bbb2a156791fea82dda8450854
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE239 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3ca.bin
d3695b7fd21105d90a42db51d291d8a2b00ff1e2878c93946e32fcc36421d7b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CA 10768 bytes