Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43b0f58756646bd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 18:30:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f208b129a3d04da0f32f37a14693fa7b SHA-1: 424e437ffcdc8e37fe5da06c87b5e1063c4db2ce SHA-256: 43b0f58756646bd6d2b50b049d769c9ec9edd8d319a2f2c86925b951e76ee877
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=maths+negative+numbers+worksheet'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm behavior, embedding numerous links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to click the malicious link under the guise of a worksheet, leading to a potentially harmful destination.

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=maths+negative+numbers+worksheet
    • http://files.mnsa.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740234/337970c.pdf
    • http://files.mhschoirs.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683000/e4279.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8583/1070/files/39952840909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3882/5887/files/89660538494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7565/6097/files/migovezoverivuvewebel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2964/0854/files/casio_g_shock_5081_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7474/0639/files/moforotesezoleze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3749/1354/files/woreboxuvinitajug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0796/5345/files/deklination_bestimmter_artikel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/16544762293.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0646/6975/files/embryology_textbook_inderbir_singh.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/taridulozomoxekolakinuku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/52665001447.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2525/9944/files/68263268360.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_off00005f46.bin
6919b0fde102b1ba5d1aaf76874a40c17916f762b4f195c9e180b43db3c3413b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F46 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071a7.bin
0f568536c8ff65023026eb0513b461c48ad891ca1193d31d5d93c02ec6124c58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71A7 10348 bytes