Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e8cc39b333a2dbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 21:23:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ba4bccaefc47dee18aa292f756901a34 SHA-1: a44ce6f3d13434ede95fbbf438012ba3311580f4 SHA-256: 4e8cc39b333a2dbbcb829e4564f10ccd0a7e6c884e1e82147268df01eea323cf
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments that appear to be a lure for 'Wordly wise 3000 book 6 lesson 3 pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking the malicious link, likely leading to further malware download or phishing. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=wordly+wise+3000+book+6+lesson+3+pdf
    • http://mesugun.artistonabike.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483337/4034298.pdf
    • http://files.shopgrayinspired.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681767/668879.pdf
    • http://vetam.veropest.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775075/f818bb84222.pdf
    • http://files.cardifun.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969291/70bed08.pdf
    • http://bibilola.hcleathergoods.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/winosaxirukazu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/83161526497.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0435/3956/files/addition_subtraction_word_problems.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4418/1928/files/53702789907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4504/3876/files/wilowejitepagelixejim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2027/1264/files/kofisatovogopoki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9941/3910/files/90594352839.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1819/7912/files/rozadapimutuxusoten.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9970/8821/files/11293040421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/rexevebekatomulijufamuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1017/0786/files/factors_affecting_fetal_development.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6858/8194/files/97455692455.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/89697892712.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_off00004a3e.bin
67e0e750859cb458b098a91eaa3d980275d3aa1656f37395c6b370b0ab58dcc0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A3E 5696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005dca.bin
6ac2b4ab1bd342c7b6651955c9381eeaf9bbd1ad6ff875e838348702e521f870
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DCA 9996 bytes