Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28aa20634942f109…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 12:32:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e21e9e832e112f17286ee113a439b074 SHA-1: 506c1c3dabee28c623cf7c5d3e13d5c7d27384cb SHA-256: 28aa20634942f109cc596919a050766c5c844c74aedb74630f87c6c828607314
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 a link to 'cell division mitosis and meiosis worksheet answers'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be luring the user to the malicious redirector via the embedded link.

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=cell+division+mitosis+and+meiosis+worksheet+answers
    • http://files.designology101.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740951/835992.pdf
    • http://files.fauquiershowandsale.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871467/xapajofanesipamosobu.pdf
    • http://kagox.kbarnestravel.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438177/6700017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5312/0669/files/natugevumofofodore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3817/0523/files/71429586779.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8346/3832/files/g10_fr4_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7664/9124/files/jaxarumonopipogeretaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6424/5925/files/3507183712.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4819/8556/files/fuse_material_design_admin_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4745/0789/files/abbreviation_for_mademoiselle.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_off000065a9.bin
18c034a68bfb782963293fcad7fefa2647f9c72d5c0abd31f07eb80dec9beca1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65A9 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076db.bin
106045a52cc06eddfa81c78373cc36384c016d668c86671ab60e82a785c73dd6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76DB 10084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000995a.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x995A 4324 bytes