Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7772ef67e1f678e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 21:15:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29bc876e771311902289b8e1d449f680 SHA-1: 613057a89b368631ee85f96a7698eba9f44fc222 SHA-256: 7772ef67e1f678e7dd2fd12a62aa4393f07bbea11b4109f1d469daea8bbe897e
154 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 a worksheet download. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a link farm tactic, likely intended to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself contains multiple embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, some of which are benign, but one points to the malicious redirector.

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=cursive+handwriting+worksheets+printable
    • http://files.allmybees.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738568/digubuzexujom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3528/6943/files/96_nissan_maxima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5742/2229/files/hateful_eight_script.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6756/2392/files/jiradikuwezujitawilo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7426/3963/files/lulimuvusamapafita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4417/5013/files/68468254020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7449/4369/files/vojujejizozesurumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7533/8389/files/hdfc_bank_education_loan_application_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6295/9006/files/hikvision_cctv_camera_installation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/23862242084.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1548/7137/files/skeletal_system_diseases_worksheet.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_off00006ebb.bin
c868bbd691f947ecec2ebd726b201d98b611e7d0950de9a28a531e000d22551a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EBB 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008167.bin
bacdffcfd41388df05e7628daf584029d408f178b087ce99a26680b6d36c2fbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8167 10344 bytes