Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d6341be85e422fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 14:39:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 364151572c89dbbb63e217cf3126f2f3 SHA-1: 73edd7492c22797b75e72f985e937057b54300c7 SHA-256: 4d6341be85e422fae2e3646354a63c27972953ffd94e96c641b8a415ce0c8e9a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a string that appears to be the target URL. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is indicative of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to host further malicious content. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=edgenuity+world+history+answer+key, which is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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=edgenuity+world+history+answer+key
    • http://varotenaz.pharmaciecocagne.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738850/wumitu-basigu-novixakexav-pizulefatefi.pdf
    • http://mivedotu.scenesofvirtue.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815806/3824681.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4103/8229/files/dewazu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9019/8180/files/lolikadibibemujipodop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1700/2405/files/604565356.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9621/files/luferu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3830/0568/files/78371601410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6547/5226/files/pejeteludixonokidigo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5326/8642/files/suvikafuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1147/3571/files/65136984899.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8307/9592/files/nitro_crack.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_off00004782.bin
2c22122e999ec27fc17eaf409f0b6ddc8225d0a566b35352da7af636af2c8640
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4782 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000599c.bin
3f74bbef6128e496bdd6045aa087e1f41ebe21478601a2ace5bee3db0ca328d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x599C 10256 bytes