Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c85ce403ea15d9a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 05:23:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29edfb2ef241ecdb0759b9d1b1e07b95 SHA-1: d193a39634a475f055746fd2b50eb794e9aa339f SHA-256: c85ce403ea15d9a3dd3c6d0e8fed40d7281bdaa85d385e8ba0f24bed26edf71a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains. One of the primary URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=ciudad+de+huesos', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or phish users.

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/wix?keyword=ciudad+de+huesos
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3836/6113/files/the_beggar_s_opera.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7272/4892/files/ruroliwigadagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5793/8581/files/63820669985.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8148/2919/files/action_plan_for_ielts_general_training_module.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0876/0735/files/rpg_maker_xp_pokemon_game_gba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5245/6346/files/tavube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4057/5386/files/68538720912.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7356/2790/files/microsoft_account_minecraft_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2042/5115/files/flora_bacteriana_aumentada_tratamiento.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0256/7588/files/explaining_reformed_theology.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/19103d_94caf11898654812bfdae693c53e2a97.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/599026_b530e8c532ab4147aac8189c18829d2f.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_off0000b547.bin
b023dca459dcf986f3b905c9d9fdc1061952ffbcd8ba6a88451950984bc5e3e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB547 4688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c52c.bin
de555e5c2eb5a7c4960641cb65fdc30a5cc5a9020818b8e1da041ffe8b0d52bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC52C 11400 bytes