Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5974ec7dfadac43e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 11:59:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb751256254807cb8f4925331f09bc49 SHA-1: 429b08cbfe569e7777bca52acb883f78dbeca110 SHA-256: 5974ec7dfadac43e33d244e0b6ef96a6a56c794f02331b5111682aa7949cad27
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical redirector link pointing to ttraff.com, which is known for malicious redirection. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text as the malicious URL, suggesting a phishing attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and heuristics indicate a redirection to a malicious site for further exploitation.

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=acca+f9+kaplan+exam+kit+free+download+pdf
    • http://files.appletreekidz.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740462/acc09e8ed.pdf
    • http://files.henryweller.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379375/d7f878eaacedfc.pdf
    • http://files.rubbishclearanceleeds.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606762/24d7e3e00.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3376/3746/files/pusudogalawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7780/3931/files/jalijitisejivov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8564/7272/files/calculus_early_transcendental_functions_5th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4891/9450/files/eminem_3_a._m.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6459/7397/files/auto_tune_plugins.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7963/9967/files/80448875178.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4016/9384/files/sepivig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9241/8468/files/brief_history_of_south_africa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4304/2966/files/37449228616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9999/6839/files/zemabubasoniwaxip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8209/5517/files/84659469279.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3397/7255/files/88266567806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9526/1348/files/nukonijojimikata.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_off000047c2.bin
f9bc24d7ba22a63c96b862939f6b15936ca7674552265c8671825b7f6a59f0f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47C2 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a7a.bin
948179aa4c922452ad080cc6f58de6f205e829530400e15e7ec45fa15fa00b34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A7A 9864 bytes