Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b1640ba44ad3cfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 07:33:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cc78ab9ab5816873e3c1ae8ce5375cd7 SHA-1: 7f7388dc146540b7645782cc93d72b5340211ed2 SHA-256: 4b1640ba44ad3cfcb514aa55e5ccd167d87a85e18583773ed6335996b16dd3f9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=goddard+school+complaints'. This indicates an attempt to direct the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily corrupted, also contains this URL and references to 'Goddard school complaints', suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further supports a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility of the malicious content.

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/wix?keyword=goddard+school+complaints
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b8c4c6b8ac9e40a89c928cd2f02856af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bb13a2_49a3d6781e4b4ce68201ed36593ae2d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_453b49a91bbe4ca78793cb8de7d4e7ab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8937/1044/files/57632088442.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7300/2906/files/19998314463.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8648/6440/files/48133534759.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9088/6312/files/bsc_economics_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3957/9546/files/party_flyer_design_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7727/1716/files/wupejinapufedar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3581/9164/files/australian_visa_application_form_pakistan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0081/files/79961231071.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9764/4444/files/pengembangan_agropolitan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6065/8330/files/kigetelokidumenororofarow.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_off00005f36.bin
32c8144f332fa5ea840ddd2f311113726608a34efca576bfab421e941ba9a62b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F36 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007140.bin
df336b8b7db21e4ca94f900316500d763e217de3779fcbe2e80d634c0fd2b307
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7140 10668 bytes