Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f04f7a5544ccfe3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-08-28 04:51:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 344a523be986045960ec0aad8d663b77 SHA-1: e1e6c3064da0fd64613af46260fdc847fa08eeb3 SHA-256: f04f7a5544ccfe3a95b6b3ec0ceadf77807a7f26f593e6690d5ee4bad9a76974
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a malicious redirector and a link farm, as indicated by critical heuristic firings. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with a primary redirector link to 'ttraff.com' and many others pointing to external PDF files hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com' and other domains. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to these URLs, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious or SEO-manipulated content.

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=el+libro+de+arena+jorge+luis+borges
    • http://files.ubwaosu.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383651/wasugegemijawof-rifevogali-muronevu.pdf
    • http://files.horsearenaequipment.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438761/8f8c2656aea1.pdf
    • http://files.zbfc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696512/figafafofebuzopabef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/74195332560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8468/3166/files/bipoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4115/3439/files/84924067182.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5497/1557/files/brute_force_wifi_password.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5036/8152/files/tigifilateboleku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1148/7397/files/stairway_to_heaven._mp3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4293/8784/files/muguxinurasemex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6578/6006/files/vutexulunufavonilinazeni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8136/6693/files/rarutonifade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4105/4105/files/30912978218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2310/5175/files/activador_windows_7_2017.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_off0000867d.bin
8afa43134cce1a6459246ba624a7b2152abfb9c12bd94d981eec1fe65c8fe65e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x867D 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009819.bin
f9be3f4e41bd9a04de43e7ab8d082c6109597989473ddb54b9e8231fac15e35d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9819 10628 bytes