Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e97d9e0f3808207…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 12:14:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8091b42c7276b2af10d59e0c88c36c3 SHA-1: 75f008650a9d69b51864453cf561d28a0fafc0e1 SHA-256: 2e97d9e0f3808207cceb4238b79968439ac2b68ad154b17ae10e90cb75b277f8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same redirector URL and other benign-looking PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. 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/wix?keyword=stem+activities+for+kindergarten+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a44510_c98357687f3d43a48c94a9ddbd926fca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f5b72_e1caea3475114f52bff304d537ca74fa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b47d828a797a41e9897790c396789d76.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ee54e5af58e14636a35fe75f85312b15.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c4177_cc0cf9e6825b49fda2f161c6185f912b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2995/4721/files/74865178119.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2080/4511/files/tezeferu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2658/6520/files/kokaxopola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0124/0992/files/acog_guidelines_gbs_bacteriuria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6581/8789/files/63514452106.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8130/2167/files/describe_a_friend_ielts_answer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3849/8206/files/mogamoxolabu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6630/8246/files/polo_ralph_lauren_sizes_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85450973079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7513/3859/files/abyssinia_law_legal_forms.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9039/4788/files/college_application_form_html_template.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_off00006f12.bin
e29a94c683fd070626e4869dd1d2f8ad02405887947a1d7383ac11bbb6af75ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F12 5668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008249.bin
2d125956cd3fb47f78a7498c7fefc4438d1854022baa727f5de8a4e7fd16b589
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8249 10192 bytes