Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0d063d79cfc1492…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 05:36:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e990926e18ebcfc1c5d5a9c30f184645 SHA-1: dbb34fd8ac71c0b4845392ffbe83a72c65da3025 SHA-256: d0d063d79cfc1492e7acfc903d6d3f95f66e396c7b28c1fae526f4f2106f50f5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'design patterns' and includes the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic, further supporting the lure. 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.com/pify?keyword=design+patterns+explained+simply+filetype+pdf
    • http://files.dryreefband.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738951/3b5fc0054ffc.pdf
    • http://files.vls-stud.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438282/mapifatapak.pdf
    • http://files.montanasavannahcats.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454352/kujekaropimuzos_tijaxatived_vivaduwilewumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9886/4804/files/fositika.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8954/3836/files/51956131455.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5684/files/13426694503.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8119/5927/files/6274442656.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9411/4457/files/vometitinokivab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9643/files/badivom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2316/1768/files/levedu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8311/files/10048580112.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2621/8134/files/pulunidabur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5843/8056/files/sinogisilef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3159/3113/files/fibazefuvaforeramal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/kirakejuxumijofaxodorir.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_off00005ecf.bin
2a4c17e8b84c471f6702f3fc0043a11c23faf8d82d46e6bf3da4a550b4a89922
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ECF 5528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007199.bin
e53612a7aa555f4eaef34daa7dd45fb6b82055e6f082b4b3ee3fca57951e395b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7199 10048 bytes