Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f7710fc0ead780b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 18:43:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f9d7e964f4c090caa9026623455fc5f4 SHA-1: 22049999881d0db4c92a7564f62353630a7f7082 SHA-256: 2f7710fc0ead780b5f91e3e97f456ba1d0c93340e05b163520079380c95bb23e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical redirector link to ttraff.com, disguised as review exercises. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and numerous benign-looking Shopify URLs, likely part of a link farm to obscure the malicious destination.

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=simple+present+tense+review+exercises+pdf
    • http://files.ashlandsnowmobileclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437655/4592514.pdf
    • http://files.ketolalab.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969399/gujezer.pdf
    • http://files.fullmoonfarmnc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637074/5101985.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9979/1268/files/76974957093.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9350/5688/files/78957804560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5294/1990/files/rofor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7063/5678/files/webugekev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3259/2040/files/81698164437.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9406/3770/files/zaxofisizorev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8833/9361/files/vipuxodizenuriwanako.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8316/0999/files/xapanidativ.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6332/0471/files/81501830778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0057/8723/files/pathfinder_carrion_crown_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7254/4150/files/call_flooder_program.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6851/3686/files/nikoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/3369/5132/files/gipokowikoravikomuzizoz.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_off00005d9f.bin
5d9b66ec80ee53e1eca6c66adb18758848b769b23f5f568ed1041c7af145205e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D9F 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007007.bin
20f0147880312c804cf8f14e717e1e75647c4193d6d34f2ee1ef07045aaef3a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7007 10060 bytes