Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9ee9ab435ac8dc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 05:37:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cab4d8c180e142aade56aeb94297454a SHA-1: 180ccce707639e74fa7d1ccae0d488e0d18d0b27 SHA-256: c9ee9ab435ac8dc8c98f310aefffef4a9f342c3bf2641aec9c13ecb823e6aba5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Panasonic universal remote code', suggesting a phishing or scam lure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, further supports a link farm or redirection strategy.

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=panasonic+universal+remote+code
    • http://files.bennyjenkinsbloodline.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856584/5ae98eff8.pdf
    • http://files.idahohorsecouncil.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776673/wotaparavifusaguzore.pdf
    • http://muvafix.annanegus.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681504/xoxele_mudiwisi_vasafodiko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/87195604050.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0436/9816/files/39370990923.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9083/6632/files/3587167727.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/vugazinaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1117/7629/files/17888610560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7420/7387/files/node_app_port.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4106/8958/files/reloading_manuals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/2570019629.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9571/8040/files/97992523789.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8799/4792/files/velokipuxowufebepupada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9731/7783/files/gafuv.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_off000068f6.bin
b1e27c1adc64de3af40d5e20257dd51296de6bdc5976943ab2ac14ffd9f7e29f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68F6 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a64.bin
aacd8652fdf40d12e48e042df03b9d1efa784cd22ad7678117260972186b44fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A64 10932 bytes