Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8655919107aee67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 10:07:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: be47d4f25b8c7567dee025d765bf6763 SHA-1: 7e3242319f7a68b1da42898a7a2640f85d897dfb SHA-256: c8655919107aee678664f4eb46bb5c35691abeebf7a08042f6082824fb0688d8
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other URLs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The primary malicious URL is likely used to redirect the user to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/wix?keyword=the+stranger+by+albert+camus+book
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6868/6497/files/nadedekanidinebewisujavux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8017/1174/files/assassin_s_creed_3_trainer_mrantifun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1009/7313/files/tejefavoboxofudazixiko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9592/4637/files/lazofojakabefimuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8955/1770/files/33666305724.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8657/7828/files/65966715879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2100/9053/files/zowizu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8493/8402/files/criminal_law_case_digest_philippines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1778/1927/files/double_arraylist_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4957/3784/files/993277562.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3315/7014/files/kezigekurakarejexudibere.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0979/4463/files/83991748470.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9802/1793/files/cordon_umbilical_cuidados.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1617/4237/files/cs5._5_master_collection_serial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9179/5873/files/batman_the_killing_joke_online.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_off00008971.bin
acbefde9f685317820ac796fe4f6c2f87321c83821b9e4e9754d8c072bee4364
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8971 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009be7.bin
acfd857c2f08e54a297c79e0d707f02935010e29eef2c498a3aff3cfa01504ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BE7 10560 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c013.bin
1be743c11efd1db6eb0b1d59ff599fce1244630bd3a52e256ed85df637fffceb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC013 16100 bytes