Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdaeb54ee8407310…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 21:58:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d137349e436030b18ea1d6ba4d506d30 SHA-1: a411d7060ef6503a48d1e8bc019d5c93511752cd SHA-256: fdaeb54ee840731081aace2e50380cd92f18b036dbff295a311c36a82584eab5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The embedded URL points to `ttraff.com`, a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same URL, indicating its intended use is to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links suggests an attempt to create a large, distributed infrastructure for SEO poisoning or to mask malicious activity.

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=learn+english+grammar+pdf+file
    • http://files.nacinformation.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398250/xupisujiloxuvi-dusadibitiwiv-rikabuk.pdf
    • http://files.facebodyandbeauty.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874124/e73b85.pdf
    • http://files.crestllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858975/wugune.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8984/4641/files/85517887826.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6662/9032/files/98853335526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0490/2045/files/napexokotunusukoxof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9963/4328/files/pabexixusomamul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9200/0412/files/kawogoziwifozif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2087/0044/files/toxekulatuboxasalinep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7746/8327/files/dafogaluzafikusikiki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0840/files/bidoloropur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1637/9816/files/kinexurumojik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8573/9685/files/happy_face_symbol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5374/3270/files/wukagurafawinubanu.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_off00007631.bin
f4b7802044d54dc4501213e6eae31a5a596f9e9993ca0a7fca58cf0f77a63c17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7631 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008863.bin
34e4d03eab4bf8ae5f87b735f7dbb65cc89baea5d86fa42c972f5067f3858c6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8863 10232 bytes