Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a3dacc7ba17586d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 15:28:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0eac1b95234564d673490d1ebef48ad9 SHA-1: d2b8785218a4597432a6c07b74cf84d750616f0d SHA-256: 2a3dacc7ba17586dde5a0178df32a2269a4fd870bb35b89c9c0dc54aa8726c90
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is disguised as '3rd grade writing worksheets' to lure victims. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious 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.com/pify?keyword=3rd+grade+writing+worksheets
    • http://juwazage.davidholdsworthauthor.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740249/kezajeju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2287/5797/files/bioecological_systems_theory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/6785/4248/files/bidovibirufagujoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7617/3472/files/68007651782.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6159/9656/files/61904733660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7664/0156/files/search_for_discord_servers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9599/9129/files/quadratic_equation_exercises_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2583/3882/files/the_addams_family_musical_script.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5247/4267/files/69513826134.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5884/0223/files/angiosperm_phylogeny_group_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4059/5352/files/59223680016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0460/7139/files/all_constant_values_in_physics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8679/1334/files/contexto_arquitectonico.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_off0000601f.bin
f8d6bc676d9b8a39f6a7747405ddb1cc48241422547a1de7c01d5487df5df655
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x601F 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007216.bin
90eb78e8cfee8cfe9a115a9ade42e9d9812ad653c844d072ee051b48ebc04b24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7216 10176 bytes