Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff24751f4c7b8a2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 20:38:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8af484ccc386cf84485460f3eef8d2f SHA-1: f88af1f7f9ff65dd31675ff34247126735b1e390 SHA-256: ff24751f4c7b8a2b2d2379d595ff7385ce30537e9230f1c764d866ab86adb26a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely as part of an SEO link farm. One of these links, however, redirects to 'ttraff.com', which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure.

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=capitals+of+countries+list+pdf
    • http://sibofewo.smartlinktechs.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/xufer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4361/8965/files/best_business_management_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1625/6662/files/apostila_de_calculo_de_caldeiraria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1319/2349/files/boolean_algebra_examples_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5414/5444/files/external_ventricular_drain_management_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4519/1841/files/programming_in_c_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jeravutudab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9535/files/ad_hoc_network_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5748/6753/files/ruby_on_rails_syntax_cheat_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3926/8765/files/14199785669.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7386/2821/files/bokon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7954/1671/files/fobesizap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8475/0743/files/hieroglyphics_font_for_android.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_off00007946.bin
1e025d5a5526ed9f3f82a0c8e73c26f3a74334c2426e43275696251fd5b97442
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7946 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008a78.bin
147b441ed8c6c81cec2ef68643234778f74c6b39d2f20a584933bf2db95d918d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A78 9956 bytes