Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d1b3c6b8da91ac7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 19:12:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e415c2dbd771d24ccad9a2a086b94e0b SHA-1: ba4c76f2aeb07ade978fe0076548c10858f33e78 SHA-256: 1d1b3c6b8da91ac7fdb8cf89e6d1c8dc27d3ad62e44a71a0e55023457d36b56c
154 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 disguised as "Gel electrophoresis virtual lab answers". The document also functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on various domains. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector confirms the intent to lead the user to harmful content.

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=gel+electrophoresis+virtual+lab+answers
    • http://files.excelpowerusercourse.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856358/7518440.pdf
    • http://files.hahnselectrical.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454373/4286216.pdf
    • http://files.mcrudin.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398187/bisemurezo-jumixol-rumavaf-zidatoluzipipub.pdf
    • http://suvabuxab.coggeshallburr.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384281/satevebulizet-totot-lixut-bugasutanukim.pdf
    • http://files.rrim.info/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739021/lepisabijeji-masatobimi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1424/8857/files/zutegirabelej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/65384124174.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9896/4117/files/87725578740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2553/8980/files/79283891616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7441/0910/files/tedokigikok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1571/6519/files/60886014407.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7853/3788/files/jugoresolobanew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8430/3775/files/80719616148.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6768/6558/files/wordly_wise_3000_book_8_answer_key_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2779/9969/files/28088077336.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4306/0901/files/50354677953.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5802/1027/files/mafumukeg.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_off00006346.bin
3ceaec91e14862c31b6556ace62b4f581ebbbe9d91c0ce0311108d1788d856c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6346 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007581.bin
80b2a4286e57c12bc4f15c184f76172ae3231d1b4954e2bc2597d41b992812e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7581 10256 bytes