Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93310674c0bc389a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 08:38:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1175b6792ba32eee6d78ddfd999ae62f SHA-1: daffa1776715781fbe88386815d57e375915d85c SHA-256: 93310674c0bc389a813dd560c6769c07db8fb9b470c274bf518a7855cbc10dba
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.cc). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'worksheet' and the redirector URL itself, suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further supports the SEO link farm heuristic, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content through seemingly benign platforms. The ML classifier also 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.cc/pify?keyword=circle+area+and+circumference+worksheet+with+answers
    • http://files.michellejestermain.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070604/4e2a62709a99.pdf
    • http://files.outlawleatherdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872054/0cd7f5118405bc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3343/4011/files/32780347265.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1562/files/rivudub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1773/1229/files/78641811560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4591/0678/files/catalogo_viemar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4385/4235/files/anime_drawing_software_for_pc_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9403/2040/files/14100294832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8909/8907/files/vuzeka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9424/4516/files/27224356111.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3416/4893/files/52152246200.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6189/3534/files/wadonapelowozukamadebuj.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_off00007750.bin
5c0a668c9e630830658144906c63098daf05affba3123a18f817ed45cfb5c6b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7750 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008942.bin
416643de211b930b4ba78e44e867dbb8de6ea2593359a03d4ab7d62be9686bce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8942 11216 bytes