Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da06a00043601b38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.8 KB Created: 2020-08-26 01:56:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ef2feb6638b8e92d6a7ef21234a5e885 SHA-1: 732afc7c9c02b148fd7b053867f1a69b7461b951 SHA-256: da06a00043601b38d9f7c9173dfcd50e9275ad756b40a0094c79645cb72376b7
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.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com', likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility of the malicious link. 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.cc/pify?keyword=introdu%25C3%25A7%25C3%25A3o+a+biologia+forense+pdf+download
    • http://vopagavun.communitychurchofpraise.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739267/4479956.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0469/5126/8513/files/kekukedegilubi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4093/1991/files/radolizelisidezadu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9536/7585/files/pig_beach_maplestory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4172/2263/files/wejoxozivixisulol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1010/4216/files/mirulusikebak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5619/3955/files/xosuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7010/3452/files/grade_10_math_module_3_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2477/6354/files/venogukixiveb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/brche_subtrahieren_bungen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0549/9803/files/schoolboy_q_oxymoron_zippy.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_off00009340.bin
e8c74bc51d3aebab77fc60f3c135aa44d7dfefe0d8dfe7299605985ec0dcabd7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9340 5880 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a6c4.bin
876dbfc5b572375cc04a89433a4fa779ab7637b750c3d23b1c0b6b538d70cbac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6C4 14184 bytes