Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41e8c36a1ab6d43c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 01:44:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d1df19063b97163cde7a63212aa8a45f SHA-1: 72db3c3952f4263ca9d41d94a8938cb469830423 SHA-256: 41e8c36a1ab6d43c81811d384bae5bfc5f2d3a7b9369bf69a86ec8f368b5d7d4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to its inclusion of a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc. The document also features a large number of external PDF links, characteristic of a link farm, with the primary purpose appearing to be SEO manipulation or driving traffic to potentially harmful sites. The ML classifier strongly supported the malicious verdict.

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.cc/pify?keyword=online+student+attendance+management+system+pdf
    • http://files.squareonegoodsco.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815154/tasawaz.pdf
    • http://vofubev.mrdavolatech.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381078/patitejabu.pdf
    • http://files.gardendesignandlandscaping.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814121/tepenov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7754/9726/files/53238180075.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2421/1354/files/58165888665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2225/3208/files/computer_networking_tutorial_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0625/4504/files/88867529054.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4444/6118/files/48064641197.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8240/7318/files/49367645142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7205/9547/files/illumination_calculation_formula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1241/5897/files/kerizine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8299/8170/files/nj_st-_3_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6338/6017/files/30607230465.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/68901651036.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/99744184538.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_off0001981f.bin
39537f7be554eb3fe23311c8d71e4db337124fe92c52dc4586a49cc2f9ae2e06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1981F 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001aad3.bin
34be2104130fd5e4c0ee31214d86cdb27487ebbdad555215250c1877f0ad334d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AAD3 17688 bytes