Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbf545adce37c6a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 06:14:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0bc8ccd7122d0e62d0214f20b3622ee8 SHA-1: 16dba9de38f3e67de23c7952ba078ea9159df3ce SHA-256: cbf545adce37c6a954357ecfb86b256d9bbaf08e1c40c804fda0a8a4156c278a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a clear lure related to a 'catchphrase app' and directs the user to a malicious URL, ttraff.com, which is flagged as a redirector. The presence of numerous links to other PDFs hosted on cdn.shopify.com suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, common in phishing and malware distribution campaigns. 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/wix?keyword=catchphrase+app+answers+level+7
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3024/8600/files/gsm_security_alarm_system_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2611/0885/files/redutilavudagurubaveked.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8229/3141/files/72289704887.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3115/8175/files/pakistani_movies_box_office_report_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3535/3248/files/snes_usb_controller_driver_windows_10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7248/6564/files/89330492637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/kemosa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1128/4893/files/65340853981.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4935/1328/files/pain_de_dieu_pain_de_vie_paroles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8746/9469/files/20602830602.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/vebizusafevepufagur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/8267/2278/files/aicte_approved_colleges_list_2020_18.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bb13a2_88e652f0f3184af5a066a8707e8751b8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_07412429a325477597f10d210de4cc55.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea2f88_fa667125e2e44c9bb29062ea9575636a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/278743_208bbe5465ab49feae9621057b77589e.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_off000080f3.bin
95363534b8fd8a43dee2a396c0d094218a20db52fa1d45bce6920877512b3b6e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80F3 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009291.bin
e5a3efa6884ab3d1b3bae47b716afff5515ad509eb22c53fdb7bd10226769603
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9291 14728 bytes