Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9439fafd16014a02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-09-17 09:55:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 154e64cc42d9dc4e5b24241f1e975c38 SHA-1: 3abff408d37ac8609aacc7e42e1832756e9231b6 SHA-256: 9439fafd16014a0255df7d7c93040e31767bf0e575eeb3b5b679b7c0aa329ade
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.club, which is presented as a 'heat capacity worksheet with answers'. This suggests a social engineering lure to direct users to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, forming a link farm, likely to improve SEO for malicious content or to obscure the final destination. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the lure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=heat+capacity+worksheet+with+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6244/3683/files/tenovagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2356/4957/files/lepaboson.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5489/0149/files/bubotufibabixurowenamok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5296/6812/files/26003694968.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6385/2712/files/xipeloxebaxata.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1344/7577/files/20023628727.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4056/9509/files/boot_camp_st_albans.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6849/6798/files/tiwinulap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4276/7001/files/99290041646.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0459/1255/files/88761793143.pdf
    • https://d75a48b3-2409-4d88-a2a9-8d5734a55870.filesusr.com/ugd/e1c37d_18a23d13b3a9455580135921f2e79746.pdf?index=true
    • https://03308ed6-0cda-469e-8320-7c01fc1e123a.filesusr.com/ugd/8e6e76_11e7737fe46b4f37ac22684bde0f5288.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_off0000658a.bin
15e5452950cf203bbd989826603ceac9e6c0730c8f60d412d3ce2bfad7629c73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x658A 4996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000767d.bin
d7a94447d82424643e4fff009a97e1c4a33d8053fd09ac004301ed63a335d26c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x767D 10412 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009a22.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A22 4324 bytes