Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec95430958bccbab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 18:38:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e78f4960e5173e657aa9713d9b26b31a SHA-1: a8575d1ef8ecf3ad0ce0177d67522202d38ff15a SHA-256: ec95430958bccbab10691fe84a64d7ca6cdd008d939329cd434ee4ff14023fd5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link farm and a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=l2m+report+twitter'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references to 'l2m report twitter', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous links hosted on cdn.shopify.com, many of which are benign, indicates an attempt to create a link farm, likely to obscure the malicious redirector or for SEO poisoning.

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.me/wix?keyword=l2m+report+twitter
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8048/1954/files/lewur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3359/8880/files/2014_honda_crv_repair_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6881/7569/files/29784667680.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1514/2567/files/95716463622.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1425/7820/files/naa_autograph_video_songs_mp4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9574/3907/files/ibps_agriculture_officer_study_material.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3305/9479/files/xezinamarude.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a510631e1bd34398915a53193dc1429b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a01749_21023328f0f548829dcb6e0f4fb96833.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca300b_51628357310b473a843b01e5cab7c4e9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1104/6558/files/lettering_abecedario_mayusculas_y_minusculas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7866/4867/files/30882670451.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4218/6150/files/precalculus_5th_edition_stewart_download.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_off00004978.bin
d49fb4b219ebc263e89fa6a0605fe6918a041ef2fa9771f0abb8148ed427ab3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4978 4708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000597d.bin
5fe56930f1e1daa809183fbfaf1158a92b97dd3ecddbab2b552e6064f83f32f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x597D 14164 bytes