Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b9e876f7f235546…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 21:15:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 998dc7800e2dc0ff47678b093ac364ad SHA-1: 5dd0f79d6afab202929e6dbcc757cbb87548af56 SHA-256: 4b9e876f7f2355464c98c161b7ea7eb68fcc1ecacfe8b6beeed06665bd0a375f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=geometry+worksheets+2nd+grade+pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise malicious activity. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure.

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/wix?keyword=geometry+worksheets+2nd+grade+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/36f25b_88c1b2bac7fb48928b8bd7c6d5f4e011.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/df4650_0a3912c6204645f18318d6493f72cb05.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c692caf4a0a64d8ca1ba09c60602eacc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7de91ee6400e4ae6a6f20299d784fb41.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3dd68e_527bf1e6ec384fefbbc477d26e3fd43d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/913720_5be37b63ff6e4d0ba734ab09369e3eb2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16b52d1e7e444b0396e282047c1fca6e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b9728_6a62a91dcc5241abb8a7d9646f60f04e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b910ae_c832ac33bee848afaadfbb582d0c04af.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0560/7079/files/gunojivugabuxega.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7930/1275/files/tezadibefigatomu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9749/8535/files/arcus_foundation_annual_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7173/3917/files/13580490458.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006185.bin
294f40a8c2f3473fab6008c33449028932b1fd0dafa5687b46212dfd0bc35d56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6185 5844 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007558.bin
7a02da73c5ff24218d04b188db7d31ceb9303d5dedd43b645f18a615a19d9b6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7558 6068 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008508.bin
1c927ec81be25ca5af599d9f455401f23b65131c6a9a164de63dd555568637eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8508 9960 bytes