Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 478d497400d1f9df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2020-09-16 14:58:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ad3994391ecb5f7f3b49b10bc19035b8 SHA-1: bbe96bb93778e616d3f681c71c94b7cc42a0cddb SHA-256: 478d497400d1f9df91d311a39c3284ccd7b0d25597a3718d780566cc74458acf
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=calculus%20roller%20coaster%20project%20answers', is designed to lead users to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, suggesting a broader SEO-based distribution strategy. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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.cc/wb?keyword=calculus%20roller%20coaster%20project%20answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1356/0727/files/57333600147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2608/7064/files/how_to_find_mode_in_research.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3628/5860/files/argumentative_essay_rubric_middle_school.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7003/7924/files/digi_ds_708_manual.pdf
    • https://f456afb6-84ea-44d9-9259-def42631c0c7.filesusr.com/ugd/370021_a234f8a3ba9f4d938a2c2d08ceb2239c.pdf?index=true
    • https://11015e39-fb7e-4b57-a613-35434d17690a.filesusr.com/ugd/dcf9ad_2564f93ee54e4f14a83cf93e83817bd4.pdf?index=true
    • https://5677758d-1b99-43b8-b0c1-1ecdbd96b1e6.filesusr.com/ugd/78daac_c2f4d040811b456e91972f40a5f6349b.pdf?index=true
    • https://94b3b21d-14ee-4d2b-a80f-d993f6e6c342.filesusr.com/ugd/8bf3fc_30acbcf13065495898cd4174eed0d719.pdf?index=true
    • https://ed6bed3c-7e75-46c6-a6e4-b2af1fd78152.filesusr.com/ugd/a2de88_dfafb76d6b2f4000bc5aeb5c314b475d.pdf?index=true
    • https://7a39536f-95c5-4210-bcef-90b1d495c816.filesusr.com/ugd/6f9b04_4d572ca48b5f490fa608f4462bf5fb78.pdf?index=true
    • https://33f247c0-9e0b-4c98-9a67-e10ceead0c3a.filesusr.com/ugd/610d21_650437e5531d4779b8178b78f1568848.pdf?index=true
    • https://a102eb96-a8d1-4f3c-a466-5c63c992d680.filesusr.com/ugd/65b209_4e0b54a5e3704597a5b175388e0c8717.pdf?index=true
    • https://ea817f61-b79d-4d50-8b5c-d2cf090e0212.filesusr.com/ugd/135178_e4707f8e352c4dd8b4b33b1dbb03f6c8.pdf?index=true
    • https://b9f9532a-abd6-41d8-80e2-956eead7e37b.filesusr.com/ugd/974a4e_8ce106d47a5f472b83fb2ea27183dd76.pdf?index=true
    • https://cfbbcfa7-1491-4d5c-9661-632533ee163f.filesusr.com/ugd/5f226b_3a9605c466ec48ef9b09c43934ca44f4.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off00010550.bin
8bd2aea7a283072ca84c520f1df30327c6f225083e8fb60f0264ff574eb326c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10550 5000 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011669.bin
731eeb2059f21e29ab5341dc1d6887054ef821e2d9c91f1e0b323deaabff9af1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11669 11388 bytes