Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ba948cdc06998ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 01:02:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d787abfe9209fed205bd956bfbd9a863 SHA-1: 49810a04d951fb726b30f85c5a8ecd9acc771137 SHA-256: 7ba948cdc06998eaa8b71f7088d036445f8231c92e31ba3f7ed18a4bb4c7acca
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 to 'ttraff.cc', indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The document body, though malformed, contains text related to 'difference between amortization and depreciation pdf', likely a lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple embedded URLs and the redirector link suggest the primary goal is to lead the user to a malicious site.

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/pify?keyword=difference+between+amortization+and+depreciation+pdf
    • http://waluninu.globalweatherclimatecenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/38fa42b5a43.pdf
    • http://files.jenniferseasonsbooks.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858540/3396266.pdf
    • http://batin.flametreemalawi.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873851/239d908f8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/9277/files/58788035954.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vawis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4131/6249/files/87533126954.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6360/6429/files/73077865696.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5822/4549/files/11517268763.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3482/9223/files/derepujemepagad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3796/5979/files/29286829679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2072/2080/files/dictionary_of_synonyms_and_antonyms_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8833/9361/files/36514539459.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_off000064c5.bin
c381bd0d632867e05c52352e28caf759a5311355e1eff27c074815b30b2a68a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64C5 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007715.bin
d9ba50000dcdcb7d6801a2369e54fc9e772fe66c2ff6d7c0d8d23d19d7dce622
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7715 10612 bytes