Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7bbe342a6a49c3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-15 06:46:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e412d6d4a95466697248b2f24ffd9e64 SHA-1: 198ce8730453398afd5ed0da5c62e730e942e504 SHA-256: f7bbe342a6a49c3e8b141be358b944a4348f907483e09613ce72e4765b4e6a17
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a driver download for an Arduino nano. This indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document also contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm SEO tactic to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=arduino+nano+driver+ch340
    • http://files.allnationscoast.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740530/3234118e.pdf
    • http://files.tjmartialarts.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303351/efbd11993.pdf
    • http://files.talltalerabbitry.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775978/e3435.pdf
    • http://files.leithgordonltd.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813362/sefopemirugome_loxirexive.pdf
    • http://files.tvgoldsmiths.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813757/3021f0416037f9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1152/1187/files/2017_ram_2500_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8015/4269/files/57145440050.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/26965864763.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6716/2276/files/38311042651.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1841/8333/files/search_doc_on_ipad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8211/3433/files/tilinaxumeverovo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7203/4718/files/lamosazepanuwej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6124/7129/files/sabowitenutemeduwixox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0688/5027/files/75112923234.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xanixiki.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000787f.bin
f5515318cb22fbf915739c4678c4f8149c1c9de8c19103cb139903861d891790
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x787F 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008a62.bin
f8063c4ad742da39eb3c28cfbdda8d0087ea1ce368b7f92878a57ba35f688a40
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A62 10364 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae1e.bin
01d5f6b849ee38655b0800083304900f34edaa75e5545ffa95f28d44bd3e4f7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE1E 16116 bytes