Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8fd04efcc91bfbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 19:59:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2846c39b44e9469e84a6cefb658c4ac3 SHA-1: 833b1cf0e4f4c02c649014f3ba692184bfbccb7a SHA-256: c8fd04efcc91bfbd33373e4c1cd0b7202fbd79e5fed3dbca77084d000378aa91
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it's designed to redirect users to harmful 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=deltoid+rehab+exercises+pdf
    • http://files.genuinelyjoyful.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856232/1d2e147.pdf
    • http://files.europeanwoodworkers.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164272/b8fd59debee.pdf
    • http://files.katetobin.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776433/9807359.pdf
    • http://files.alliedcontractorsgroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453725/difikiwidare_donabe_jegodosu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4800/0927/files/tebiguweni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7957/3414/files/finemufusiwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5884/0223/files/59289204402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8998/3640/files/monufowexixotazokotokoxig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7338/9223/files/tukizozubokonijakesule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2924/9694/files/formato_brief_publicitario.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5229/2513/files/81441055210.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6635/2025/files/42234375526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4954/1013/files/muscle_building_calisthenics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7207/5414/files/mipavajarek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1084/0981/files/redeem_steam_code.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_off0000682c.bin
07e78ec0370600afdd4888e30acaf577c0443c01c247c1e3d25d1c5df7688e8a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x682C 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007aaa.bin
7704323dfdc38c4db39a0d9e7a8e4f4065a272d27fcb8de02ee957b857d471ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AAA 9740 bytes