Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce03940b5859936f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-22 02:00:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1475a2cbbe8d032c79a0936c6140fe13 SHA-1: a10fe6befcd6e0b98f84e8e6eb144cae4a5b4030 SHA-256: ce03940b5859936ffb355958e3cbc0add79e3944595bddb9833cf75d67f55a75
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, forming a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to software downloads, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious links. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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/pify?keyword=adobe+audition++for+windows+7
    • http://nijef.iamasocialscientist.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164538/6391827be.pdf
    • http://files.complexity-aesthetics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775145/fb888eb.pdf
    • http://files.castlepointclimateactiongroup.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483214/pozopataru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4135/7973/files/9420188321.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8201/4108/files/xusokimetof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8385/8080/files/pizigaxufifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4432/9877/files/defusarafev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2821/0073/files/terunut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1266/1152/files/xivajomadifezinezofuzu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5196/4830/files/60205620538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0664/7717/files/82037539406.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9314/8313/files/concrete_words_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9342/5316/files/duwaselevanora.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/zaralesepumavolipu.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_off00006a08.bin
0c6a98ae729913369d4478e5afd945aead9e1aa7a63e46c65a92fb4c72fdd497
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A08 5172 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bc4.bin
d4b7987cc5d672361665b2c50c34bc52b28c6bd5179d3a25e4a24441789a93a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BC4 9844 bytes