Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02209ef03779c72a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 01:32:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e762f101b2c1d5291a43cf304182bf1f SHA-1: 7ed28de2d9ec16e6f6cec13b3128715ab009cdd0 SHA-256: 02209ef03779c72aa12fb861af565f3cccb2517aabc4d81a713322c48ebc52d5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically directing users to 'ttraff.cc'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to benign PDF files but one critical link leads to the malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting a potentially harmful site.

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/wix?keyword=elementary+differential+equations+and+boundary+value+problems
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_57218dcf9dc4439c993db971d6dc7c39.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_54b08894991047e582f1b28c977478ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4e146d0eb4fd48cd9c641ffc48614c7a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6200/1821/files/gudij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3613/0983/files/reflexive_pronoun_worksheets_for_2nd_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4430/5061/files/50968692479.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6261/files/14669775203.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/2562/9085/files/bijuminasagodopolavopabek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2710/2876/files/nanoparticles_characterization_techniques.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6287/6565/files/lametibopemufoloxebilev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0751/5558/files/dinidajutiroponejuga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4742/6975/files/pedialyte_nutrition_label.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0819/6767/files/sport_psychology_file.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000613c.bin
708da390f15bc91fca0af719c39271f50840654d440efa42e74ad04a41fcaa8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x613C 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000741a.bin
4ebd649be08db2710a4242ecbe41ee70d2dae2c9899135a3d99ab8595c529957
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x741A 9888 bytes