Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 432e765e7c6714ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 23:37:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0a5133290031b0b9daf05bd432a643f6 SHA-1: 2b782062a7820ec8feb9e126d838aa047ca97901 SHA-256: 432e765e7c6714ea433815092c8bb365716fffce48ab29ca2bfa4bed783e4537
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high density of embedded URLs, many pointing to external resources, which is indicative of a link farm or redirection strategy. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc', which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Radical expressions and equations worksheet answers', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=radical+expressions+and+equations+worksheet+answers
    • http://files.loynohonors.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384113/6380709.pdf
    • http://gupoximog.drugaffectedchildren.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302870/jutizap.pdf
    • http://files.therealfoodcafe.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969097/cd4889.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4192/2982/files/dental_caries_risk_assessment_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4596/1383/files/winurefenesal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7230/6852/files/15748137812.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3361/6803/files/60788372327.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4203/8182/files/58018495599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5872/5018/files/47109881067.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9667/6254/files/46216195809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1123/4197/files/kijov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0649/2823/files/trapping_rain_water.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86562581376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/51031200676.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_off0000477c.bin
fbf510484d8694bd6c1fcb1f47ce9d938d6e00b257624903e41b63386f1ea2c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x477C 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a4d.bin
3694bf9b3fbc21abfe23019e4060d35d7cd61e62b06645e1bad41f7587dc59fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A4D 9456 bytes