Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccb1a57f99b9343f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-09-05 16:28:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8a73d34cdb1dd295f836409b50d7643 SHA-1: 35f2fba85768faae1a67c01becfbcc46fa28b56a SHA-256: ccb1a57f99b9343f9df11d5c11033e095857ed95dbd51b548e92f8188d4685cd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=hotspot+vpn+android+free'. The document body also contains this URL, suggesting a lure for free VPN software. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.link/wix?keyword=hotspot+vpn+android+free
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/48f461_b5ee21b230a7438ea7b45cab6701ca05.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/47b1e8_1564cf1ef3fa433087b29409f1430cdc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb5a6a_22123c84d07743afa5cd66746e4b6c35.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/80c1db_f98791702493450bb0663605a50ac0f5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/289c5e_b75232576ae84b39837ea0909f6cc6e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e4819_35508e763b5b4530b455a78266a7412a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8e1900_c7d6951586214c5e8cc25b48520a5363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9565/4554/files/sefugikubobezi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9495/0556/files/73233434369.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6028/0982/files/pagbasa_ng_abakada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8362/0757/files/game_card_maker_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8786/9592/files/20182624453.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/flight_666_imdb_parents_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1517/5335/files/adjective_clause.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5932/8662/files/lesojesunegajeradu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0200/2584/files/88025409586.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_off00007053.bin
8191eba4605da76a989b5a020496eb86913a44b44039265716f369872cf91db2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7053 5024 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000817f.bin
14038814dbdb39c6fb5499d3dd7b7da982716f63d1c8edfdbe719fa4cb8ef504
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x817F 10364 bytes