Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca0c430b48443c2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 07:28:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c8a0687b67a9789cd0b04e17fc8d3f53 SHA-1: d6d7cc35f9d4a479897432bca274d197d3f6ab61 SHA-256: ca0c430b48443c2e032f61bbaab2cb7969ea4f78dc549afaa8b603657d37dc25
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to ttraff.com. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and the malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=calculus+limits+and+derivatives+pdf
    • http://files.lynnbrooksmft.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637953/dowutudeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5912/5160/files/dodugebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3714/7811/files/fatevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3417/1800/files/zatore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8570/9987/files/buzumidejigufovi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3222/2615/files/autocad_civil_3d_training.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9568/7328/files/the_chemistry_of_transition_metal_carbides_and_nitrides.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5430/0312/files/womub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9812/1119/files/define_immunization.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1123/6259/files/nafurodulurevovugewa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7809/0901/files/28207014018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4516/files/75046601294.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5799/5160/files/88438581930.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0181/3915/files/car_games_qawwali.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_off000078fa.bin
0abd9ffc2606aadd7d11698df65a9bb4fe8f4e80986cb1e5b206743887b37e35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78FA 5264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008acf.bin
4fcefc5fb3d88d85b984877eb9ae8bc9a871c54d1b8be9bf950b2c5ba9b10d1e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8ACF 13912 bytes