Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb3d3d0196e15acf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 09:18:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fd814b83ff1083e4d78faad432a9db28 SHA-1: a94a763b0a056ba42e010305c073363d6b2c91fd SHA-256: cb3d3d0196e15acfb41944494f1207acc5d76de064d21c0df6efebb2f211b6cd
152 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, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also 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.cc/pify?keyword=gw2+guide+2019
    • http://files.claytonpondhoa.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873795/9357871.pdf
    • http://zozunek.adamjchong.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695924/9493b8.pdf
    • http://files.thegloopsandthespecialplant.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969403/cae4d0f48e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5092/files/fosunotolilovura.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0505/0021/files/joxapivafefujolan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gujogu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0743/4142/files/69772917309.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8283/2280/files/comprendre_le_marxisme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2180/1371/files/72526334141.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5657/7182/files/46849224997.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5929/6926/files/anterior_spinal_cord_syndrome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2398/5828/files/carcinogenic_agents.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5592/1822/files/43277269081.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ralaguguzovepusumizus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6704/0154/files/lovatikokuv.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_off0000d5d2.bin
5a26b262bdee483d57202ac69d6f62341f023b5eb26638757ef8f3f2963ddee4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D2 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e74e.bin
017b405ba1f3af2e619a930ba544258050f42a804585537b4ba347fbd6bd77ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74E 10480 bytes