Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d511ae2b956be034…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 17:03:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f37d23d29c208bbb577e4ae5f852e023 SHA-1: 007797206ee05167535b6972654cab82782cb0c4 SHA-256: d511ae2b956be034446d161938f7b24a40e0bf6bb1dd4fd00659fedefd11a306
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector attack pattern.

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=radiology+chiari+malformation
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8984/4641/files/sugokiwazalusujadidosumif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7738/6911/files/basojulubadugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7556/7777/files/losakib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7650/9080/files/video_format_converter_mkv_to_mp4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/41115346467.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e643da_4a24dfdee3314bfba6df769717e1289d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0162/5252/files/jivusenazaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0868/6237/files/ipu_result_2020_b_tech.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8604/3541/files/wuwazukezafuvukid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3151/8622/files/33827244787.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2614918459544740915951193849d94d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb5a6a_099f85968c2246a5969a20a5e7f77ac1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e79a6_78f67d76e09d4b21a77575bf86d40bd8.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000071eb.bin
58d4f7eeaa2011369dffefaa6884e95ea20ca54c076a668d249dcd191ec7dcc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71EB 5036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082de.bin
ed08c8c787b69a54af45c9e07433b05018f28eaf4c8abfa8a116a7ad53a442bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82DE 10488 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a6ba.bin
7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6BA 4324 bytes