Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90602a0bd50be0d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-09-19 09:33:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9e83c2859ffda0230ccf1ba56c5bd206 SHA-1: ffcc469840cb266696198cde3c13065fd8407523 SHA-256: 90602a0bd50be0d8f0d28e8d790805c81cbfae91b464e160ac7a2aa67c9710ac
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to obscure malicious destinations. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.link', which is used to obscure the final malicious URL. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'compound interest practice worksheet answers' and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.link/wix?keyword=compound+interest+practice+worksheet+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3384/6172/files/big_ben_reformation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4104/5145/files/hollywood_movies_2013_tamil_dubbed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2865/9870/files/nodugifumiwogorafat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/95643389973.pdf
    • https://3d4d4cec-a8d1-441a-ac29-5f51a880ebf4.filesusr.com/ugd/696117_791a5705c21e497babafa4b5e2b889bf.pdf?index=true
    • https://065f26d5-8bba-42b3-a66f-377e27dcf729.filesusr.com/ugd/430cb2_0927af37aa1149838206e12002387c62.pdf?index=true
    • https://f4b88c91-05c8-4d30-b30f-c17e22451f32.filesusr.com/ugd/83b1b3_c540cc3030a6438f92f311f2fda67c92.pdf?index=true
    • https://6536868e-bf10-471d-b578-d1514f08b432.filesusr.com/ugd/34ec99_8e068eba575b42b9904432fcf0cf8a5f.pdf?index=true
    • https://ab2966c7-7dfe-4fa8-875c-6326d2f2bf86.filesusr.com/ugd/5c8b2f_e809912e253d4dbc931906cccacb9bad.pdf?index=true
    • https://087748f1-f7cc-44dc-adfd-7e9e9ee4b51b.filesusr.com/ugd/97aff7_b79b8f92388240c29eb82ef246a5e99d.pdf?index=true
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b36.bin
f83f766ad8f30fd5a34307e69625c3b739c5687d4c2777510d9b12fb301a681b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B36 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d41.bin
6e45e3451046010318194ad7919df1202fe049c7520dccaecb76b00299a1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D41 10256 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000906b.bin
317228f2d08d18141f034234d842b81bf2a15bd1d86e3bca52277fb9bcb4e4ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x906B 16380 bytes