Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd34beadf0d5ffcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-09-02 15:53:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e681408c81fc28d8db98c65dbf23dd78 SHA-1: 7f5489d2b0afa78530626fc37aae3a1aa324bcaa SHA-256: cd34beadf0d5ffcf774b79e6e6df14f42414015e463d5b789dfbfde401d493a3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised as a menu. This indicates a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to Shopify, likely part of a link farm to improve SEO for malicious content. 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.cc/wix?keyword=the+habit+burger+menu+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7529/5640/files/aromatic_compounds_mcqs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3945/7431/files/tobalubikixireburojogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4797/5062/files/59407674773.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5671/6186/files/85226496709.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6461/4303/files/2646135215.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1581/2773/files/miwevetejefujugarosojereg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4790/2629/files/70530964495.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5224/3861/files/betumukizazava.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2603/8433/files/motuvile.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ef0c3_609aa60b45334017b25bea60328a8bb0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bcd086_d9866278f10a4ea39f59f4c606c40336.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4d998_2e68a595bc67449ca7bd779cfbab02c7.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000604d.bin
80e6368f68c51de473f2e594b36ab02d6fb72ac50b97088bf6dbcd89f38ac21a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x604D 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007241.bin
49ed002d0342b76d672148295c5104b2d79a54964a9312568a22c7d4c87d27b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7241 10748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009743.bin
cf96631f784379724622ae63351c9d35a5a19c08ac2d66cb149eb318896b45b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9743 16416 bytes