Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcf9f17318e53da3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 07:17:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 240e8dfda399b3df088b1a3d1e69ef5e SHA-1: 30d74c2a65127fb5c95617cf5288146c8126a342 SHA-256: fcf9f17318e53da37f5ca1b0d948419200c5e59a9a4a1700b42d2e371c4fea5f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely intended to lead the user to a phishing or malware download site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. The PDF also hosts a large number of links to other PDFs on Shopify domains, potentially as part of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to increase visibility.

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/pify?keyword=weather+report+live+album
    • http://nazuro.bristolbaycrew.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302944/rusasu_jabava_vosevotupigifuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2523/5111/files/43853572731.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5525/0598/files/nimaziwudivupekubagolijem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3618/0634/files/pomarozijiweselesi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8644/6746/files/76605478181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8984/4641/files/zusibesobotozetuvexekal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4609/9349/files/html_to_c_stackoverflow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4715/6903/files/jaxamurenawuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2865/1938/files/16431048607.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8310/4409/files/45170857717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9072/2469/files/repovan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6009/2315/files/python_turtle_examples.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/043

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec3a.bin
74f211c043f1099e14913b384f10a995de3b25dac8b1d07fbbfdbd65e3713e22
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3A 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd76.bin
6b54f9cc9bc8bc13cecbb166d179f2be576f1d2afc4820a3ede626f92e11cea7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD76 10448 bytes