Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 deafb949e944e962…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 23:46:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 287d4157084d0cb2995558e895ae49cd SHA-1: ef95da97ac70c5115827f98992b1b47c719240b1 SHA-256: deafb949e944e96288288b0323fab2c8845fd2d1b50f1534c707d7320c0c19d7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link disguised as a free worksheet, which redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.cc). The document also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely as part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic confirms the presence of a malicious redirector.

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=free+decisional+balance+worksheet
    • http://files.madredeusbs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406036/lufutawolubexeg.pdf
    • http://files.inspiring-senses.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874189/c90f744112.pdf
    • http://mujadu.waggywalksottawa.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/fewanatanusidawazemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0552/5661/files/tutap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8117/9048/files/21790078345.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/jawibediwij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8699/5863/files/zalob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3116/7137/files/77937907314.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2771/6506/files/13169757767.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4598/4158/files/16289077980.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8809/0022/files/deziw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8113/6296/files/new_janapada_songs_kannada.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_off000086e5.bin
8f4b83b84b0822d2c937eb36a9d73a71b7823ce311e64446b66aa48ede969b8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86E5 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000098dd.bin
907afa8e85d9ebee16bf77d3c325ff36ed10d3082dd66011b5f93d5dc2cadc50
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98DD 10880 bytes