Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff85f3472f0c9675…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-25 13:50:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 14aedb4aff6d3f2af4c8c843c4d98c88 SHA-1: 665450b057ffffa6cf5da5ed58854dd7cca4e58a SHA-256: ff85f3472f0c9675f56d3be0929909c4888f998044b269141b15ebc9710a7383
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious URL (ttraff.cc). The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the text 'Singapore calendar 2019 with public holidays' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via embedded links.

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=singapore+calendar+2019+with+public+holidays
    • http://files.stevewanna.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637374/kalodizosodugikaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/16587251942.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/90212657000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7989/1099/files/97662834765.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7886/7354/files/wesixuwasominazigukeduk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9906/0392/files/luxubogozikabogefegivi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6756/2392/files/bamu_bsc_biotechnology_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6310/5953/files/20697435413.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3446/0828/files/testprep_70-_697_configuring_windows_devices_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3694/9152/files/naragabateru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5666/8573/files/i_speak_six_languages_sheet_music_scribd.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_off00004f84.bin
22fcf2c3497f5f8c2be556230e68e1792d8299254d0e7fdb4f145909d4ea2234
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F84 6256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064c0.bin
710f663a1e4dbe59e961574f6bdb9ba9c0b4403f112d41b18c28051e84269085
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64C0 10240 bytes