Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 249c313423693bb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 07:59:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dd7b210afff3982c134651c2619bc9a5 SHA-1: 7f821d30343a0bc63561ec19b298fab7e9b54889 SHA-256: 249c313423693bb6b3b557d5d74fadbf3c3ea6b9f6874959de67d23b0d23bed4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to a redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=engineering+mechanics+statics+11th+e, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to academic material, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier 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/wix?keyword=engineering+mechanics+statics+11th+e
    • https://cdn.shopify.c
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16479d6eafdc437fa583bb2210179fda.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4493b3712e744fbdae29f68889328556.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2fe25d6526324c378ceb3e72ea834f89.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5c3f0db402aa4661add6d593c1d3be1b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7623/0051/files/bahishti_zewar_in_urdu_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7973/7237/files/kixabitabetubokujodoki.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_91436a01911e49eab3aeec83c749f18e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f80ec_ec25adc2745f45459c6f856055ac18ce.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1263/6315/files/19567584060.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0469/0444/3040/files/90253321337.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9798/1085/files/lonely_planet_philippines_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0774/3899/files/16278091652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6211/7031/files/86798218993.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000699c.bin
ba9dd86ad06677ef82b9fc66565cbe1db364e5caa8fb73f24ce3e10b7ab9a08b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x699C 2960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000741f.bin
ed01f6c718f78d1e956e5927caebdff3c43641dd628dcaf99a7adc3886a39a1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x741F 5192 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000859c.bin
5b1ab7a392a277bbee116fe231ca7688f2a456850df4f774dc2573b0691bef9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x859C 10700 bytes