Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73ba65f47f8c3023…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.4 KB Created: 2020-08-22 06:12:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 99bda8cc042fe80277ae9d6b4ef3d48a SHA-1: f8fc78a2f717ce7813eaf60aa0c23b10f10ab2bd SHA-256: 73ba65f47f8c3023cb1a13a893978413f2cea9307f38f3bbe9c0fa1eddaf3aad
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, including Shopify. One prominent link directs to 'ttraff.com', identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'geometric distribution problems worksheet answers', likely a lure to encourage clicks on the malicious link. 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=geometric+distribution+problems+worksheet+answers
    • http://files.pp-personalprotection.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606435/7533385.pdf
    • http://nirufazib.marktobin.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814070/5565218.pdf
    • http://files.hordlevoluntarycare.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874413/zoladamalija.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0525/5577/files/96094955943.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0452/5720/files/45204463181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0331/3315/files/berozebulaba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8643/6759/files/tegiperuvejexotenimeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5393/0901/files/62165122450.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0962/1665/files/70143102615.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7341/4055/files/45237608323.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9085/3531/files/60302317797.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3153/5524/files/mavibitekukax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8651/0232/files/xapow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4136/5922/files/mataweroga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2735/6056/files/87765081050.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000044c3.bin
d19971d550d185268a634da0540a6a684453d29e7286d5348c11a31f01cd9cb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x44C3 5640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057d2.bin
9ad29a161ae7b668dda1d0143b15f7f2d28b7bb211b116dd27b8884729ab4468
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57D2 9572 bytes