Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9298c4cabe8a1e44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.3 KB Created: 2020-09-19 10:12:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a68ff504d769737e96e44c14a392f7aa SHA-1: 93876f0cd43ee29643a9f490f02725373d592ef6 SHA-256: 9298c4cabe8a1e440e02e38e908e50ff0d9e4c702eb93ef1b71316ee81a94d53
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=spanish+preterite+exercises'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as educational content. The PDF also features a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are benign but likely serve to obscure the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.me/wix?keyword=spanish+preterite+exercises
    • http://jaratu.cmajor7music.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380433/69f8fff3d4cfb6.pdf
    • http://nuwen.lornathomasphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607095/nosure_jijurijilazo.pdf
    • https://02181850-7b5d-4bba-8038-f0430ef9e186.filesusr.com/ugd/8d5d69_7d18c02d5d95466ab0264b6b63ae3430.pdf?index=true
    • https://93796ad0-99ff-4e92-802b-8b84b260e21c.filesusr.com/ugd/d017d5_d5d955250b604de7938aa3b970470d17.pdf?index=true
    • https://b1c001c0-3153-4c2c-9745-5c20e9635536.filesusr.com/ugd/ee6770_cbd53ec048e94f6dab576bc7e5c83243.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8476/6620/files/gimuxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/9238/9531/files/11th_bio_zoology_practical_manual.pdf
    • https://794a9aa5-3782-4b2c-80f4-63db899ee980.filesusr.com/ugd/bb05c1_4d5ab0705de241bc8bdd454360818483.pdf?index=true
    • https://1719c139-aee1-4d14-87b8-1ecadabd34f5.filesusr.com/ugd/e3c460_65120d5638464579a4d20e1bfe45c431.pdf?index=true
    • https://ec79f283-f624-4974-850b-6fe91ecd77ec.filesusr.com/ugd/e6e573_b5391e080ae84beb9fd3d0ad6b4b5017.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000084b7.bin
3f0b1ea2bb2186e944f9ae68c5f9ac80d5bc7188aa9d6bbcc7d8dc0944ef5023
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84B7 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009638.bin
51ebeec29509b87aa858d500e37ac8853184703d07d1f913ce36d8e1dc7764c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9638 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009ec6.bin
5e7f6746a9caf906cf3504f8eb038d5989359b99dca835f4ca43ac265d551fb1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EC6 13688 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000c9d3.bin
7dc293a6b0f08b88f161d6452387d9af6548baac153f16c2bffe5f4935ef4bf3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D3 16884 bytes