Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b98c7550219c2c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-08-24 11:28:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ba7ae7d56bc634b65a68bbc01c7b2939 SHA-1: be95c14191d83fc9d4b4023d256fbdaaf00f6ad1 SHA-256: 4b98c7550219c2c72a2905a1075fe0d664a1734b9d5c0fbb323a5684480ef05e
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised as a 'Cpa compilation report sample'. This redirector likely leads to further malicious content or exploits. The PDF also functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the heuristic findings.

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/pify?keyword=cpa+compilation+report+sample
    • http://files.alpenaoptimistclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738928/342ff1.pdf
    • http://files.smithprojects.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741433/gibidekofo-matidexe.pdf
    • http://files.academycounselling.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695679/sokepobegid.pdf
    • http://febovena.baystatesurgery.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/33a46b03.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/78394199391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5872/5015/files/ragopetuvesijogigafize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6173/8662/files/essentials_of_cardiopulmonary_physical_therapy_4e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7694/3000/files/83430403363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/8465/2184/files/math_gallon_man_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0935/1585/files/91885058681.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7144/6939/files/current_affairs_awards_and_honours_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7668/0870/files/gumif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6548/1118/files/canoeing_merit_badge_pamphlet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2345/6661/files/zofobinixojivikasufed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9938/1157/files/nudawewaziw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/1210/1020/files/imposible_cargar_la_imagen_html2pdf.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6939 4888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079ae.bin
bbcdda86ce859652f7b4fd20801ef5a371b49cc790af071ded6e117f93be0751
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79AE 10572 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009ded.bin
1c8bc4bf779fdf5fdd428ab6ddc6a1665d3fdc1c26b4364692bd94c1ed605b78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DED 16364 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000b3c1.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3C1 4324 bytes