Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 279060630a8de547…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 21:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0bd35acad01373d2252f2426c76f22b0 SHA-1: cc602277b29089695bf33efdc7c6a48400c44808 SHA-256: 279060630a8de547aaf79797620917c0c51bbc0ceadcac76ca1d48a04ea81af9
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.com, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a title suggesting an exercise sheet, a common lure. The presence of numerous other links to static.usrfiles.com, while individually benign, contributes to a link farm pattern. 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.com/pify?keyword=ellipse+drawing+exercise+sheet
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3818fe0eb3334579ad71dfd449b18d41.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f967ac_78c8e54a48a34ec79e688e1654ec1856.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7306e_329837c2e3d848278fecbbfb1e3e2ee9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79e0dc_2f3d7e6cbc7149be8bc4e880a40ca781.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/45fd81_2166ae9dc83c4608b79647efb4fb3aed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd3290_1387a6a870564808bcfb5b1d7460a89e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f2b0b735e20c4f308f2f9922363ccce6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8684/7903/files/54491086897.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9899/5864/files/shutter_movie_mp4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5049/2316/files/62571209386.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7776/3226/files/gifapejese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3636/0351/files/belorolamizewixopowulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7804/1244/files/nikon_d5100_for_dummies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0824/4381/files/strategic_management_book_mcgraw_hill.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_off00005e66.bin
161e91f5f5cb1a3c01159ea2b73a28ead8d619b195ceb8e2957da2ed9c9a1a64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E66 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007100.bin
83dc4c3e69212ebd118f778a2d3c60ce2be81755898e05ed04016fe5f9033817
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7100 10084 bytes