Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffbe04bf5147f5fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-24 22:06:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 30dc31778d0a625353652b1052811639 SHA-1: 48874ce9b6c632ec49e70930e5d4a280cf0611dc SHA-256: ffbe04bf5147f5fef4198a6e536248ef3bcbb70170ccbe64d38e7b5210135c7b
152 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 designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a list of other URLs, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high probability of malicious intent.

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=business+letter+format+canada
    • http://napaluje.sieglindemcgee.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407836/teteworazebinu.pdf
    • http://files.clairepassmore.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740385/jominiguvisemok.pdf
    • http://dufir.thegraphicbrand.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/naruxibilasinituwip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6583/4649/files/abcd_2_movie_songs_masstamilan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5789/5841/files/82129425146.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/31056735454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2611/0885/files/47255318020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1926/2357/files/valekoge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4035/9068/files/73946330373.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7355/1001/files/chemistry_and_chemical_reactivity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6150/1336/files/adding_mixed_fractions_free_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/0870/3894/files/sample_business_report_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2038/1342/files/biographical_criticism.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_off000067a7.bin
d5a88afeb4d2e5ead6514651cd0d54292f62f5420fc679c8ce33fee586d5218e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67A7 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007940.bin
4a5314ebfc1c6d9d5bf293cdc6920c3d4a0aceaac0d7de50240cc8cc8f5d5b65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7940 9732 bytes