Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 022b1eec829dd9bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-21 06:56:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d24480e9798fa06f61d597992a685d2e SHA-1: 9652aebf4d328b453d5b674c0ee6490610bad4df SHA-256: 022b1eec829dd9bdee4ccb2eac9fdb67c85626101feb8c7a3de489727764429c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=photosynthesis+lab+gizmo+answer+key+page+2
    • http://files.cameronfarn.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775002/5761bad.pdf
    • http://files.safehand.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969993/f0271341ce.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7254/4150/files/makalah_mastoiditis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7337/1300/files/gusudugufojezezel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3459/0878/files/24662099533.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3144/5156/files/yamaha_service_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9599/0175/files/dulaxiburobajofemozoben.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7883/5606/files/history_of_great_britain_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8632/1566/files/gomizen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0765/3526/files/spell_check_foxit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7372/3800/files/best_spirit_level_app_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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006160.bin
f07db2b95e96283b1a5bb2db7d5cc315ce99ab255788c775340e5a3aa1d80935
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6160 5816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000751b.bin
7ae30127bc665586d6dbf1dd65f1d7a1d04977c3649cf4ac2aaf727b5b1e5dca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x751B 10556 bytes