Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57c5a7cee27282b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.0 KB Created: 2020-09-01 03:12:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d9d782802f4137be8e3fb2a3e2cc2b5b SHA-1: aef0b16e7cbde12c43be1163e2521b7ec1fd71c0 SHA-256: 57c5a7cee27282b1d97019aec1306928d4d583ed05f2bd7a9947ccbbdfe1fc61
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 disguised as educational material. The PDF also contains a link farm pointing to numerous other PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO poisoning to increase visibility. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded malicious URL is the primary indicator of compromise.

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/wix?keyword=compare+and+contrast+setting+worksheet+5th+grade
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0645/1094/files/wedag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6880/7578/files/cold_rolled_sheet_metal_properties.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4423/9510/files/82005647390.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8858/4605/files/rewugerulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4647/6708/files/71521818651.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/69695d_b9f62e64a53949b48d3e6eee7903b11f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3489/4755/files/87800411238.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1509/2894/files/suwevimalepowexopowexez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3368/0282/files/15170091214.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3742/5818/files/ch_play_apk_android_4._0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/4259/3957/files/beethoven_fur_elise_easy_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kiwovanigefuminif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5759/1960/files/gizefojirex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7378/8321/files/99322154568.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_off00004d2b.bin
8825270ea140a73b88f36e6ddcb23d9e472517e301c879dcbf8c75bbaa1b0459
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D2B 5640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006045.bin
adb949a4548bb583aedf7901747f067e0f415bbc3afe90b6b237dbc53b82d36f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6045 10232 bytes