Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecc9d8f0787b4ebf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 02:14:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e1333bf8be4073cc8c8087a63497053 SHA-1: 98b6af111b849a13900197dc38738aebe2185243 SHA-256: ecc9d8f0787b4ebf1050551da0e715f231bcddb714070c446bb8d1f8706d9e14
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a tactic of creating a link farm hosted on Shopify to potentially manipulate SEO and direct users to malicious infrastructure like ttraff.com. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=balle+balle+song+ming
    • http://wexigarid.centralstockcare.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969933/7614564.pdf
    • http://temawawu.kz-intl.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453133/a9b05614cc6c6c0.pdf
    • http://momunile.shaynamade.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874304/mewitew.pdf
    • http://jukubanu.alisonrsolomon.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/756cf6a09f83e1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wimuwukewamofese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1778/9862/files/accounting_information_system_romney.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6856/3351/files/what_does_fyp_mean.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2119/9516/files/ambasamudram_ambani_video_songs_hd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6596/6754/files/diwugew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7794/1913/files/discord_webhook_generator.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9989/6475/files/correlation_matrix_python.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2511/2994/files/clockwork_angel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5669/3397/files/93125875796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1485/5583/files/xarejijiwimaxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6385/2708/files/49473920662.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2639/0946/files/exercises_for_ankylosing_spondylitis.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_off00005a34.bin
db224f684d0a4cf6d3b3ba76bdf90a98097514d92121a36f483aa4fdde6d8c20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A34 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b7a.bin
816dec69f3a8e3c03ebeb317c0221c018deef3e8af0472bbc7120e89a8c8dd7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B7A 14056 bytes