Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5c9a2e5317a861e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 13:32:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f008eeab1f77b815aa7a89bdb7f0c226 SHA-1: e22fabcb411453db34b984de61bdc9e41066a71d SHA-256: c5c9a2e5317a861e0464064c0eb193c2112395dafed53eaecc9d4eba2450e911
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded malicious URL.

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=aprender+acordeon+de+botones+pdf
    • http://files.smcountynewcomers.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814593/dixaxifafejal.pdf
    • http://files.ifobookmarks.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813876/xoxovipigimilelipujo.pdf
    • http://files.boulderpartytours.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815026/54b3998769.pdf
    • http://files.monumentvalleytribaltours.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775334/wegino.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5036/0232/files/20261010902.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0832/7829/files/rutumebademonudil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5261/4311/files/71103207679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4691/0624/files/lubufukobadubujovaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6549/2127/files/didupejebevigupifem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0027/2792/files/pebepejuritixaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5265/5002/files/nixinomukutejedog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6674/4214/files/gazufavamirexe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3670/3900/files/colorado_common_grant.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_off0000531d.bin
c65f091e6ca1a025852b3c90a31b458cc0ea952edbe1126a5d21e8993e0ebb73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x531D 5248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064fd.bin
8ab19a7955bdfcb52bba013aee5a8cecd29ad8c75c0d18dd54a6773499eb0ad7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64FD 11808 bytes