Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c554c79a69a54f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 12:37:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0e80171a610f3f79ce7f171fb4269c0a SHA-1: 6130097faf7bae8a06638b7e447eb02b5a17470a SHA-256: 4c554c79a69a54f117eb10f47cbfb7cc6d196995a8a4fab6063080958b49fbc8
152 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 likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and appears to be a lure for a 'types of biomes worksheet pdf'. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS score further supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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/pify?keyword=types+of+biomes+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.dealsrgreat.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815343/6d703a82029cd0a.pdf
    • http://files.happinezibiza.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871963/ed1d28e.pdf
    • http://files.carsesus.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874524/mumukavakirirep-bixusopumekaz-xumezax-putof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/5561128363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7606/6211/files/fallout_4_5mm_ammo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3225/6407/files/bjarniv._blog._is.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8545/4757/files/xebebi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9403/2040/files/96858843564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/35117459625.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6273/files/gulunopojuferasejosixifek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9765/7248/files/cookie_clicker_elder_pact.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2949/5959/files/pometa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8990/3259/files/totirotarudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2707/0104/files/25394297868.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_off0000619c.bin
b89cb77e07d05359a9db6e6b88f2fdd05dfba5e975593aad3dac888f7ea8329b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x619C 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073d7.bin
c697af47f477091e950f7cc2580f9ed8fff4108963967ba12b480cf128456a6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73D7 10132 bytes