Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ba11ae7e2fd50dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 14:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 212b3f3fa3458257fb1188031efe1f2e SHA-1: f73dcf1c8aa989fdf10675bd17cb4c8f7ab0a722 SHA-256: 2ba11ae7e2fd50dce0089599fa5991d334f510f867e0325fd55f73b0be6ca592
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically identifies a link to ttraff.cc, which is known malicious infrastructure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a mass external PDF link farm, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=alphabetical+order+worksheets+2nd+grade, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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=alphabetical+order+worksheets+2nd+grade
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efb3f0_7a2fbf9567f446d6bc5ccc3a6416b1f3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee6770_f62968252ac747488a7ee0d6cefa72b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f35a962480e54ace8f9c5c15881ffbbf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a640e9_00a150d60f9e46f491b5afabfced93aa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8917/3411/files/79424377693.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7705/0024/files/rerubekixofezinodamaverej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9486/6088/files/nurap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1631/4277/files/nipikujawemuvaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2556/3799/files/bidosisuge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9109/1875/files/51912615434.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd30ac_dd9c9ef2d7624c55915c60cca6b132ea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3d0627_85f98dfd114149a99ba37e609c9f9a4c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b47872eb1fc74acd89e7d333ae2f581c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4bc37_6fb293690b814bbabbde205004d9e77a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5e8de6_add6559d72574fde96bc6a8bb0bee2a5.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_off00006693.bin
0649d533ee3a3dd0f36248bf0b902596be19e777ec4404a55d0320c9f41a3741
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6693 5752 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a29.bin
4a592108bd7d44e20bcb7471d2933a16f29952a9cefdca2004f94bc0efc072f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A29 10076 bytes