Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f907a01413fe009a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 07:06:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2005c8a38781d596e1f57e99750f2a84 SHA-1: 2079ee73f6aac79e580e57bcc783074cbea1fd45 SHA-256: f907a01413fe009a243095f22ae0cea584241749d53069bfd7d8e3ced2dd71a0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is further contextualized by the document body containing the same URL and keywords like 'vpn master for pc free'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of an SEO link farm, with numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search results or distribute content broadly. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/wix?keyword=vpn+master++for+pc+free
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/7168/5027/files/noun_clause_exercise_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0441/8459/files/autometrica_julio_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9376/2975/files/ralov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6129/6790/files/falejojumebivufew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/accuweather_in_newark_de_19711.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae059d_b4dd84cf1cf441f19eb6db97c31e514c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c068f8_18bd2a69b6304b44bc42252c4429e0da.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9423/7589/files/revoworezafazuku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6394/3074/files/feruvidufuvusuraj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1281/6034/files/vixikaxovevedefovelaze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6104/9494/files/english_club_activities_for_high_school_students.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9062/5191/files/ferskvann_arter_l.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7901/6360/files/13140335965.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_off00006da0.bin
d58a6255319f1607718f226600ce62220191a94d07ad98d5a2f79bbc0ca8c668
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DA0 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007edf.bin
438975cbffcecebed3c6df10c51be1caea8d8ea5c2c0be67fac8dcedd53d603c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EDF 10192 bytes