Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37cc5ab625fb57d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-18 18:20:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e4b304dab140503ac7f50ab748c25dd3 SHA-1: f34e5f9f3f8a32275b1b5657d632759d58af51df SHA-256: 37cc5ab625fb57d30d7651da9cffd17f3fe3fcf3eed53fe7b51a8f153c7e20d0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests an attempt to disguise the malicious intent by appearing as educational material for grade 4. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the presence of a malicious redirector.

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=guide+words+worksheets+for+grade+4
    • http://files.maddprops.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816066/ridulugo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7599/9646/files/ventriculos_y_auriculas_del_corazon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9150/1990/files/guligubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5254/7739/files/86960848892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7382/2102/files/degradacion_de_las_proteinas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0301/0459/files/vovazew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4042/3592/files/pevadila.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0379/7916/files/yamaha_ns10_m.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3920/2207/files/naanum_rowdydhaan_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5170/3706/files/87834189372.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7680/5023/files/arithmetic_geometry_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3269/9302/files/tipos_de_bacterias_gram_negativas.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_off00004f7e.bin
369f7cb75d6e444a20f5285f54bc964ad0cfd0300d1ff81c8b125fdfe909fb1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F7E 5188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006152.bin
2503b2421d4729589ac84c39352fde77c2f1c7b83d486fc39108558ee1803d0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6152 9904 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008326.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8326 4324 bytes