Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6cab327505f356e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 18:44:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de931c3f652368a240ca8a39c604db6d SHA-1: 25246117c5b5fadba38922b6947fdb6fdd29dd94 SHA-256: c6cab327505f356e40a942059a379ac551675bee5a94f4357a165d0035e98349
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a redirector link to ttraff.cc. The document body, though obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several Shopify-hosted PDF links. This indicates the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

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/pify?keyword=homebridge+wholesale+va+entitlement+worksheet
    • http://files.bencaunt.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406036/5452218.pdf
    • http://files.dirkhambloch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452878/e37f43dbc9.pdf
    • http://files.chwpress.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408245/lamezul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8999/2605/files/sarobetufolividiponipop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6127/0935/files/whatsapp_plus_for_android_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0402/5243/files/what_does_inb4_mean.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5410/3713/files/movapok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4283/9455/files/gusano_alfilerillo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2707/8052/files/65522064315.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zofoxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7839/3764/files/hablar_conjugation_formal_command.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4795/2292/files/mapojabewewuponaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8470/7992/files/nedesaxumumorip.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_off0000a3ad.bin
9067deec3ea31527a86c440be6167a97b1680f0dfeb17a952da1bcc95abc9107
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA3AD 5556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b67d.bin
b6063cbdd5d7c7f14357fdfdd503154e88670cf6146c4a1bbb275c0dea2fa7b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB67D 10704 bytes