Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bad3fbc93f710a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 01:45:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fcf6152c1a639bbe2d35784e2d5860e6 SHA-1: df0924ad8f681c567875ae6589056b5564d46bae SHA-256: 3bad3fbc93f710a96d32e3b496932b5d9001e6f3b690113543f68da95ec41ac9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.me, which is disguised as a sociology textbook. This indicates a phishing or social engineering attempt to redirect the user to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious URL is sufficient evidence.

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.me/wix?keyword=introduction+to+sociology+openstax
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b11f6d_96864b32a2e04039b70cad57b8185932.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_50013010c18e477f8e551885bd23c3ea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7598fa_6da136955adb465f8fcfaaaf304f30ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83f04e_fe1d4b6fd317447e93caa1d02093476a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/50c35f_a30e0e5becc1460a82ce9d68fd479405.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/173616_018b3a3560c448d2957f19da623d5b67.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c762cac771034d9f9681d8e751bb0e0c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f515ca_30a0990b367c461d870da73466d19b9c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a640e9_2a9a33b745084f7fbe874d9bd64eb775.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eaf48f_7dbb66cc379b4f7a8a802a2b199abac4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4fe9ca3e4ebf4cb6be6b9aff8f9824a2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_94e3a8296603478e8006a35a8b66b84b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb4c03_279e8170e7a543d6a0872bcf502b3b13.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_off00007756.bin
e88c406c66d76f81ecc87f2e53356f3f2d65e2825a524ead7728e324d3927b33
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7756 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008936.bin
2c48dc8df68e579f91cb188fe2c03da5e9f8c772a0c057c8560a25affedfb676
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8936 10088 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ab7c.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB7C 4324 bytes