Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc567ba8babfad66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1e9241883c4ba68f574a28f4b0522898 SHA-1: 494a0518ca439abde7ffd43ff7a055a27aab7b36 SHA-256: fc567ba8babfad668f5a4bf4fd2b3aaf0d566c8875ab729ba245183fa5f8b049
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure related to economics, likely intended to trick users into clicking the malicious link for phishing or malware delivery.

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.cc/wix?keyword=intermediate+economics+varian
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0408/3869/files/54139120884.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0196/0854/files/508804726.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0427/1524/files/10178103045.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7530/3592/files/fupalugobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0391/7974/files/wonurix.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9af6a01153da4800bb69aa80a8cf6f5b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3ed1f_1315b6f472bf4cdc91fc5ae2d26b7248.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5d995f8dd9fc4b71bd66e35351a8146f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6925/0463/files/lesozutomozod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5883/0229/files/farmall_cub_manual.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_off00006614.bin
3415fced427e597489e08dbf3951016044d46b28bd54eb17e2c982b1fe4b052c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6614 11688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c24.bin
04e26f1345f7b04bdf0957a5cf23a37dde8fa4ef27718569c6152bb0836e384b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C24 5048 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009d31.bin
10f124efa097dfc27081c87d292c8605dd0f17fc0843d0cac2e32a0c750d835d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D31 12232 bytes