Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed9cc296551be144…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 05:52:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c22b7200886a49c49bb6cfc24a2b792 SHA-1: 066d68378487fafefb14999c1ff8c5d6a10b9a48 SHA-256: ed9cc296551be14442aa02923e9a9f743178aef23aac06acb24801f8f7dccba5
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.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and keywords suggesting a lure for a dictionary download. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy. 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.com/pify?keyword=english+german+dictionary+apk
    • http://potepo.myfreedombookstore.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740257/bibofesek.pdf
    • http://mejiworeb.nlxcakes.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069991/3835468.pdf
    • http://tazavofu.youfish.tv/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302780/33218eedbbdea.pdf
    • http://files.shaderadio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606405/modiveso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4850/8311/files/interview_answers_tell_me_about_yourself.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0671/4268/files/samsung_warranty_card.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5529/2317/files/aggie_war_hymn_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4013/files/tikodiloxunununiropolixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/81159011373.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7768/8743/files/vimisowofat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7835/2034/files/53355951403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6504/0286/files/wiwenifebago.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5797/1362/files/kobazufurunepufeloli.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_off0000469a.bin
384b25618e1d1697ac55241f4958890326026fc884a2b56eb10086b6ff19751f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x469A 5612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000597f.bin
4f83e2093b13c778635881866f9fe459e9db7302d3b1e77dc6dc1dbbbbc4cc22
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x597F 9484 bytes