Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2048b9f0f477b7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.4 KB Created: 2020-09-10 07:33:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d88cf6a3f222123597d71eaa51c2f998 SHA-1: fbcb58dcfee18d0096fd8f519ebd5c32dcdbbbf0 SHA-256: f2048b9f0f477b7a35f75c4305a772ef4eba6d1e8847c9ed2651c8dd32c3504b
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.club'. Additionally, it contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, many hosted on Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.club/wix?keyword=addison-+wesley+chemistry+fourth+edition+pdf
    • http://kevan.infocomtech4dev.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438577/moxufonovuka-xisexazewaru.pdf
    • http://pozirod.winkwinkbeautybar.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379730/najolaxixixebax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/nagipiseno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1806/7876/files/47888768081.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30549310566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0602/4101/files/bash_command_cheat_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/9267/3437/files/vikolulipuvijidula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5476/8021/files/ripiso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9645/4808/files/fur_elise_sheet_music_imslp.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7d1dc9_b970daaa30854081a577b9518029a2c8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/704566_e6377932b48d485499fd137d8eccbf5d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a0d21a_e7ffb6d213ac4e19818cea0bbca43a1c.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_off0000418c.bin
4b342a7c902e8773a4596948d0602ca62c0478c809a4491d6a5bf6092bbe90c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x418C 5400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000053e5.bin
d546f17e817d2b9e3557c346c0e6e0d70f4d1a329a669f59c1195076b7175063
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53E5 9588 bytes