Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d16b404c6d75402a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-09-08 12:27:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d513fb65a26bee9bdfb6f342e79e71fc SHA-1: 8280cb6049664c1d1ed17f86cd7cf06bb2f6196f SHA-256: d16b404c6d75402a1049eef248952bbe322651a52b92aa336dfea7cd714a7131
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.link'. This link is presented within the document body, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking it. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is flagged as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=encyclopedia+of+mathematics+tanton+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6495/8616/files/zojaruledetuzixejeju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9249/9868/files/40013700599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/9921/9098/files/22856172576.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1615/1455/files/mcent_browser_apk_old_version_50_off.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1092/4437/files/19799825301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9548/1754/files/bitobal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6048/2463/files/wabumizezomiretinutaxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3957/9546/files/advantage_of_autocratic_leadership.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0e2875_f7c65329c6ac4df9a843a0c163faa4f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6e3131_455fea950a0e4921ba1eab6f8181fe2f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07ef24_30082dda6ef2458bbb5966dd861b175d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/111c46_32f77f667d504353a1dd1acfcc00cff2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ff9b8_197ad7b05d974b4fbd9f74a22684e52b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/5561128363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1442/2677/files/63597310042.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2905/9991/files/25522165314.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_off000058fe.bin
f5350d32fa07eed1660f46e9b6092db167e8dbb8de9f861e2ba2ae47c889d860
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58FE 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b29.bin
d6268b562b312bc3eb4adb8d415c96d9e074c6ff452b5136a8d9a006d87324b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B29 10540 bytes