Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d730a7e78f87b85c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-25 17:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 01fab93e783f348fd386a7e8ed6bc773 SHA-1: efdd9935d2379d8051644533d62e2706c17bffba SHA-256: d730a7e78f87b85c5e0c346b95e94d516c95ef14061d0f0c5d88005b236af91f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same text as the URL parameter, suggesting a social engineering lure to click on the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=many+thanks+in+advance+for+your+answer
    • http://files.frachetti.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738825/linizufex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8044/0215/files/www_nod_321_com.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5700/5222/files/60136555543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1446/3394/files/69353783950.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7684/5728/files/carfax_free_report_hack.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7026/7291/files/xigavotaduluvirorupeser.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7645/files/basic_english_grammar_exercises_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7400/8741/files/litulizaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7205/9547/files/45320134908.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4677/3660/files/collision_reporting_centre_waterloo_ontario.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2873/3352/files/18488579704.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5463/6949/files/vasafagubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/repanipisaxogevowesani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4506/8699/files/15778245159.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_off00005a34.bin
f5352c376f7734a4c655282750b2db819dbd3c120ba5a3b57746297ad6a84066
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A34 5400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c98.bin
a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C98 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007525.bin
cd9cd780e1abee9608416c5c5bcead310fdcacfbe3fafe97026c211bff0bd859
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7525 15468 bytes