Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ffb3f2fb1f49d7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-16 11:44:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cfca41b00924f4fced5644ddd8c32162 SHA-1: e82297fdc42dad6faac06b57b834484c4b3a4f1d SHA-256: 4ffb3f2fb1f49d7afffaea525889c98be4344435b1bff0cab591057eb8e2fca6
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.com, disguised as an educational worksheet. It also hosts a large number of other PDF files on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.com/pify?keyword=balancing+equations+worksheet+year+10
    • http://files.aldadesigntech.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741211/2126513.pdf
    • http://files.bulgarianoverseasproperty.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776720/wiwafavusil-jajejumivul-pitetenofu.pdf
    • http://files.stellarcarevacations.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741109/5032976.pdf
    • http://files.isnaa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775220/5df2d20ba1fc9.pdf
    • http://fopuf.imperiacateringjakarta.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131855981/ba107f99c6b3029.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4016/files/kopujapamuvinimatuzoge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1610/1798/files/92433827025.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kumug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9113/1554/files/80902633538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8234/0770/files/nilidipelod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9421/1750/files/xafulawifazosiga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0821/9547/files/thrust_ball_bearing_size_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6019/9573/files/brighton_college_abu_dhabi_uniform_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6127/1959/files/da_form_1256.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0876/1764/files/82130653734.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4815/7859/files/pupuwajajabirobavixovebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9496/6429/files/bapozukevob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3645/5591/files/xifoveza.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_off000069b7.bin
bec02b48b713159ecc243c76cc906df954f4acdd7f73ac8fa0537dda0be95315
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69B7 5688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d26.bin
fab9211dac79ae552ed47967c79b0ade0e8f3ff936170ca8488ba7705f62b8e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D26 9804 bytes