Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4fe3b9c5483d8bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 21:19:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec0de5b0e02c39ba36c0ffe9c2cc2e3b SHA-1: 8f984b3bc6557c0dc281f92af55b1771f024ac25 SHA-256: d4fe3b9c5483d8bbe4a0ea47a388a155d994af49aa646d2bd63bd6bd7935c0a8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to a malicious site via a deceptive link.

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=schandry+biologische+psychologie+pdf
    • http://mogelofoj.thelincolnloft.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776445/bixebaraj.pdf
    • http://levoxala.advancedtechpac.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483200/mepiziselu.pdf
    • http://files.yewmountain.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453136/6337845.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8424/3363/files/caverne_de_platon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/54440827626.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0667/9447/files/32662624913.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1480/6937/files/25060917346.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5214/6587/files/37440073330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8711/6965/files/29033388140.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1421/8143/files/16579691103.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2287/5797/files/anomalias_leucocitrias.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5106/3195/files/betotawumumed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1715/0368/files/fejatekone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4222/5832/files/anatomy_and_physiology_of_respiration.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_off00004ac0.bin
e9937a4e5826a7b5cbe0179ad91a1e4899bbaf0a076c41794dfc7a68eea79676
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AC0 5764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e4b.bin
42fe73fff1184624fabedc0f684df5809c58f3902fae761f28874e92dd051e77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E4B 10648 bytes