Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 949942020784fcda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 03:28:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d6ff8b7bc279d7e43ca835285a339d89 SHA-1: bd3c37640ac5a133d20dd7fcd9d55c37fb266b04 SHA-256: 949942020784fcda042c9fe232fa7f94e099d5c8910002a4ea4383bf84af1bbc
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a PDF redirector link pointing to ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'hvac licensing study guide free download' and the malicious URL. This indicates a social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting a potentially harmful site.

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.com/wix?keyword=hvac+licensing+study+guide+free+download
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0378/9991/files/vasowek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nawujumukupuzuwoxelojoses.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7772/9432/files/93089781164.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9170/5500/files/learn_basic_english_grammar.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8827c12f9d7a409fa60c8322755e3de4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0112073a40784c0b8b3ba496522f7bcf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ad78fa24dd2d46dcaa99271bdc585643.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_adcc115665af4fb4aed394875277abb9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7f344bbd63c14397ab3ea4d46e266329.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b388b01f7f8748ac9f6e493b41fbc52f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ddf5f9b00c734c4c8da90ac4924426b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c60f0e16c4c7435696cc43e21fbc263b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_97c468cfd3ee45e4b0c3034c15c84f8b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d43b6ec7328043178df670c7166d41a8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3b3ea172b5c2452ca0f08364a1105733.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_off00004848.bin
fe3f471311853fa639859f577ae9a96afb32149dfc46184b242e40b6ff913391
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4848 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005acb.bin
dcc9901baa3cc8e84bbbd4f29edabd2c626ef5711dbb4a955347077576f23765
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ACB 9708 bytes