Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5420c05807d0346…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-07-26 18:17:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20e13c552c499d80bfe4644edb7c7b55 SHA-1: 72245c68f16d8773d80c1069fbe0aa6a4cc2f1f5 SHA-256: e5420c05807d03464b7820631a2631f3b61f68a434d899f299cd364398b34eff
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility and lure victims. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of the 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=comprehensive+business+plan+template
    • http://files.alwaysinterested.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814596/79913f17eb.pdf
    • http://files.emeryhigh.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383958/1658168.pdf
    • http://files.craigewanpg.club/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164125/1005603.pdf
    • http://files.cassandradenhartog.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775174/2822769.pdf
    • http://files.kilimrugavenue.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969200/9111606.pdf
    • http://files.alwaysinter
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7922/1927/files/96004251281.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6997/2392/files/61875372480.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2601/4620/files/rabozoxawo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9394/0629/files/naropa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7696/files/82660667536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9809/5272/files/firotawejavinosizarubi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9894/8255/files/musetoluzolezewud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4356/1384/files/panuxilaletevutumazo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9354/1532/files/lalinusofo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6014/3014/files/14712489360.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9330/2178/files/detaravifaxokuvarigebimu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9229/6359/files/3301351476.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_off00007625.bin
f102e33a9812b24f10cbd50b12e400d06438b383b921099a267cbeabb0288cf3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7625 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008788.bin
c560f2a9c2e23db27f9bc1f5e8fd774cb35241b8e58728edd2670cd0aa80b2e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8788 10204 bytes