Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7cd2a221ff4370b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 19:17:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 285534e772c439df13945b9a5b225367 SHA-1: 3ad5d51fd2aa2b8fa4595ca59b750f6f15015f92 SHA-256: c7cd2a221ff4370b492a3e44f2b786c512ceec807b7a50baa913dd504fa06778
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to a malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a document about child eating disorders. This heuristic, combined with the ML classifier's high confidence, indicates a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The document body itself contains the malicious URL and numerous other URLs, many hosted on Shopify, likely as part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for the malicious content.

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=trastornos+alimenticios+en+ni%25C3%25B1os+de+0+a+6+a%25C3%25B1os+pdf
    • http://dozixisev.hairandmakeupbylu.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408899/9743989.pdf
    • http://files.andreasyoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437669/b02c29a.pdf
    • http://zekeso.alex-andonov.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383791/ba00eb70d.pdf
    • http://files.powerinpresence.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969477/xulipurisawi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8634/7414/files/98934053057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kofuka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8857/6661/files/64477631004.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3287/0044/files/another_word_for_values.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0949/9551/files/linizumabud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pizegavegip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38140624907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1817/4107/files/81989125983.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9950/5311/files/gesiwatajozamalakafob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2134/2619/files/mississippi_driver_s_permit_book.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_off00006418.bin
d0dce106272bc821acd525cce2de265b39be8edb20e2b2fb20a24e6f6a9d81cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6418 5548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007687.bin
41ea0a5f3f3c927daa08fda4584c5b6975885c6dc7b899d9361aad47b606d20b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7687 10756 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009975.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9975 4324 bytes