Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0e32bfbb0b410d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 10:55:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee55d9d2187d06365ea75870bf1f54dc SHA-1: 28b0c6b1457d120202d605e9d4c1f6b07ad2cbe6 SHA-256: f0e32bfbb0b410d53fe20b28438bab93302e3e0925aea3c3ee69c38c2d24feef
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, containing numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=english+grammar+pdf+book', which likely serves as a lure to distribute further malicious content. 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=english+grammar+pdf+book
    • http://files.ashevilletrafficsignrental.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/367851.pdf
    • http://files.joanlovesbis.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857390/b0bff23e29fa.pdf
    • http://files.weddingdjcotswolds.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969489/9155048.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/84512078302.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8127/7345/files/bilade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/calculus_larson.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0097/8853/files/19873400828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2531/8563/files/72232664768.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3380/5471/files/94112956493.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7327/4018/files/saxesosajisozivuvip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9914/3838/files/34234181970.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3278/8648/files/joraboxibisat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1459/4466/files/moxikanefinogojonixur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5800/4117/files/torijuxuzigotelixebuzafa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48466687054.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_off0000808b.bin
be5a3de181b11a32dd713f381e51a10076a21020d95f67da2168289d8673068b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x808B 5616 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009377.bin
2f5232491e1de74a7b5ad4d6bf4e297b56de195485e128adec146a3ebea22826
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9377 10112 bytes