Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca3c7f6512220329…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 03:32:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: db4940836b8a041eebd7711d10d4713f SHA-1: 46166e44e895965d625574acb30bf1faa9c1ade7 SHA-256: ca3c7f6512220329b51af8124deca7a4089ceff0a0bcc4a0bc998725c819fef4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=used+leupold+rifle+scopes', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to Shopify and static.usrfiles.com domains, suggesting a link farm intended to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing.

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=used+leupold+rifle+scopes
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8484/7006/files/naruwadopalunapuxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2683/0744/files/iqra_hanacaraka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9794/7300/files/typing_cat_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2207/3506/files/dasutumowegififaxefaxunab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/8684/0743/files/vulosogivakuja.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/82e28d_e34635ddcb6a47d3a44272df7b3d0fd9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e9b01d07d95c4b9e85287a58ed98cc9e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a31856_6ad5ef7a7d2046d48d2976b411462e4f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/15cd4d_12f3def131ea412780e862a6c17fa878.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a58b01_f8eab6e0bbe74ceda321c49808662051.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da8a6199aa8c4473a2a642835b5aa1c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79e0dc_bbc445884a27403196d64f81db4e329c.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_off000042a3.bin
64d6871c508d9790a4d67da1cdc3f5dfe6bff8b3240cdec67d8b1a535c148db6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42A3 4928 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005377.bin
4fcb754792ab5ef6903ef657542a14099a53e3c62f0f1d34613a826cc4d794cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5377 9812 bytes