Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce594697ac5d7ce7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 21:17:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ddcc12e06bfc5b5f7455c1f60c9cbf95 SHA-1: 6dc70155d28a3da0963ab7175ba367a51216e61e SHA-256: ce594697ac5d7ce7c7775f74ee2b7347d962e46e1132dc04785c6fc1f36bc21f
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 pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify, likely to obscure the malicious destination. 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=oh+baby+english+song+free
    • http://fetenoran.mztext.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406893/4807928.pdf
    • http://files.alcorstudios.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856409/3473139.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7818/0261/files/63270753067.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7016/7967/files/material_ui_cards.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0477/3031/files/mw3_prestige_hacks.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9792/2461/files/factoring_simple_polynomials_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1662/6081/files/foundations_of_python_programming.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5120/3225/files/39045508247.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8529/1937/files/43996274835.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/pavape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6538/4861/files/81_critical_thinking_activities.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0293/6992/files/nomolenazigojageragewul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/32881671379.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8308/8547/files/70166178222.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6538/4861/files/81_critical_thinking_activities.p

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000793f.bin
1d496f256eb3423b2a20c3b0841335801d1fa8a792c78cd20ed3ed0f61637777
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x793F 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b4c.bin
f21ed5fad0104da9d55a71d2534fb6910de08532b10b9faec27137c3537f96ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B4C 14664 bytes