Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cccf11677b06f61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-14 03:44:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a88dd03d1fde088173d84a7f15099a33 SHA-1: 292beeef27b38af0596cc20f0c0af128ec996be3 SHA-256: 3cccf11677b06f613effa124e0b218d134cabdd9082d66d06936ae622646c3af
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. The link leads to 'ttraff.com', a known malicious redirector. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering, luring the user to click a link under the guise of accessing a worksheet answer key.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=practice+worksheet+graphing+quadratic+functions+answer+key
    • http://ginojajot.brittanyspanielclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406665/guzonori-wajezajera.pdf
    • http://xitewokux.edgeofthewilderness.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739349/vuwatajomuwuvod_pebukunepawaxu_sowotibexo.pdf
    • http://files.tandhathletics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775427/8474639.pdf
    • http://tesinu.environmentalproteomics.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398157/8816321.pdf
    • http://files.iconbiketours.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482886/6922958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6900/4190/files/acc_guidelines_for_heart_failure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7179/8436/files/fivipelosu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3551/7337/files/53022037312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9587/6003/files/lufunenuxifozamopifuwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7857/4490/files/vepupesawoxanu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1908/2651/files/public_stun_servers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4666/4349/files/calculus_ron_larson.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2888/1313/files/general_organic_and_biochemistry_7th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1822/1730/files/maguvisasuputupakakuvijak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3140/3413/files/19492349589.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7727/0692/files/as_time_goes_by_piano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4929/5770/files/sifiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23281911610.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_off00005ffc.bin
438161b364965bc92cea8705e98e82c9286aedb90b73d9c75c98bfc8bcf585ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FFC 5768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073a6.bin
62074e32a6feaad9e5a478e38a001af23a89f6dd34705fbc41a1b5d2cd33a211
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73A6 9884 bytes