Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ab505432ca3926a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-09-04 02:28:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bf94958fad54343890bc4e1e744a2f7b SHA-1: f99b920fb4b62804f91e8b9ce12da13813a39930 SHA-256: 4ab505432ca3926ad403094dd6b0d6652ad9fd83753e83d39b0b86ecbe749309
158 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.link/wix?keyword=code.+org+unit+3+lesson+5+answers'. This URL is designed to lead the user to a potentially harmful destination, disguised as a search result for educational content. The document body also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The embedded JavaScript stream and ML classifier further support the malicious nature of this document.

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.link/wix?keyword=code.+org+unit+3+lesson+5+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7592/0282/files/abstract_reasoning_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3124/8539/files/2012_bmw_x3_xdrive35i_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5612/8412/files/65594507370.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2947/1130/files/xezafalewa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1353/7951/files/2016338324.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5999/4014/files/pusunufaxejenagivex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2205/6600/files/piritolapefutefozopepi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6085/3920/files/xajanawopurebipuzimu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fbccce_d578762edcbf4709be5267e6d2a7dbc6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/565485_d16109b672ac4ef3b024dd42f326ea49.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3d0627_dafa68a3b79d476aa5663d363f884ff5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/760101_6f44d9dde8764bcf9a63154c60239159.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cb2bed_202be5065259484d9aaa0f9d2cd2d928.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8148/2919/files/jepifinidutazup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8082/7558/files/10415100143.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_off000068f3.bin
bc56999ee37c1e6888f9307268e2b78034ab1f96c0dca0870fc51c18f639670a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68F3 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b22.bin
3b192d35db2eec7c10077723400778e70c7dbf2d32f2ec5545b31c6fb4e5e1a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B22 10196 bytes