Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6dc7bea0744c901…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 12:20:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1636c859a2a6b35d423078f600755d64 SHA-1: 9222b225e8736b09cb2a5a66bae2082d36e7d38f SHA-256: f6dc7bea0744c901bc2cc6b89d76e0ce6d11c8dec45fdaba53752e763b2c09c5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a redirector to `ttraff.com`, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing "top hd wallpaper sites" and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links further indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious 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=top+hd+wallpaper++sites
    • http://tategi.carolwooten.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452836/vagiredemubepi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1969/7310/files/titanite_chunk_ds2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6556/5589/files/81184654143.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2803/7287/files/vesitaguwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4138/2812/files/wotonuvapilidegu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5158/1597/files/fitubavofu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0721/2709/files/95062792568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0741/0329/files/wavijubeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9258/8184/files/job_order_costing_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1370/9730/files/blank_movie_all_video_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0009/4112/files/dawuwenamolotalilapalubaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7737/6936/files/python_cumulative_distribution_function.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8638/8136/files/79640017903.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3503/1712/files/pazakuf.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_off00005e02.bin
860c42f738eb4a10b5715f6f27dba8a306d8d984bfbe33df90d92286e6b4a0b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E02 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f5e.bin
57169ced8b86a16a334978cb50237989cd349620237e1927744a6bbc7f74799b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F5E 10024 bytes