Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7c4afe76028c1a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-24 10:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f6edcc05478e38ccd260386183c8ce4f SHA-1: 017144eca0a225e0d187b93757ba02456cac2486 SHA-256: d7c4afe76028c1a6a1cb339f67041371e6588f6daba2d8831e4e72dc3b1e084e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the same URL and references 'account receivable entry in balance sheet', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content or to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=account+receivable+entry+in+balance+sheet
    • http://goropova.solarancestor.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739140/worofovokepatotika.pdf
    • http://files.yellowheadauctions.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815004/5193937.pdf
    • http://files.slehschoirs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813558/dozuxota-notorimiti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5125/2896/files/hodgdon_reloading_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2441/6931/files/33662711852.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5064/5157/files/factoring_polynomials_fractions_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9831/6705/files/supercapacitor_energy_storage_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6265/7177/files/10221858115.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1791/0941/files/airline_ticket_reservation_system_project_proposal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3594/1274/files/87825578736.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1471/7597/files/camera_nx_apk_for_nougat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6154/2054/files/asian_paints_apex_ultima_shade_card.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8353/8331/files/matetujajadolabi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9726/8128/files/16102748766.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_off00005e78.bin
2df3923cb09f909093f6ee72a0f6506102d01d6ad16c99ba6597520d47124d19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E78 5176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000700d.bin
e4a543354dd0e135f2f20f7d9b33437e226223d4fd273f45f6c862f612fff68e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x700D 9920 bytes