Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8943018902f1b164…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-09-04 08:44:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f066447e29bf98a4bcebedf326ae23a3 SHA-1: f8390ea6a8542b028356fa5f5d875926b7c1e1dc SHA-256: 8943018902f1b164feb65bf82c3e92faa0fb55234e6954ea4a998494d67c1f5c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=punctuation+worksheets+for+grade+3+with+answers', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Punctuation worksheets for grade 3 with answers' and the malicious URL, indicating a lure to a potentially harmful site. 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.club/wix?keyword=punctuation+worksheets+for+grade+3+with+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0897/4235/files/adblock_android_root_xda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6126/4035/files/gravitational_force_and_field_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8601/0776/files/numerical_methods_for_engineers_5th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3464/6440/files/ravufipikuri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2891/4087/files/popamakoduxaxifek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7146/3831/files/73151122633.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7813/2636/files/23620669164.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0803/2922/files/camilla_lackberg_knjige.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f9ef0_7ff8e8ed8c004aecacb42e22158f85d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/902d29_d6b76974d2684d5c95521280183c78df.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d2908_c2b16b6e4aed47b4b78a794559b10a7b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b7182_c6dd0f963470421dbcc1f021ccd947b9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b28ae2_20692b71d1e54db69276629b9e1335dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d2751c_6ce7ba49ab2f4752828c9be3c9656aaf.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_off0000568e.bin
42f877725b6a944300a3c795486e022985e127fbaf344a18142f9770a2deb731
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x568E 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006995.bin
b087734a399b1abe5beec4fe7c372a7efded3b15dde8c9434617a0200471572c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6995 10036 bytes