Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94f3bb186f23bb2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 07:17:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 25a0a3e1f8be2b08dc8b2f61d8fe5efd SHA-1: 287a103269fd7b6970bc6a851b187117e4e54b5d SHA-256: 94f3bb186f23bb2d5796962235d43d1732ed562cd1563c8b7806435accf90fe8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a plausible lure related to an 'answer key'. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking the link, leading them to malicious infrastructure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content.

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/wix?keyword=integrated+chinese+workbook+answer+key
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9726/8128/files/guzudaku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7229/8913/files/6143434882.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3025/7568/files/170521287.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5c8b9c234fc9424180aa2cc9a37cbb81.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d7b4058e02c947d09a2cf0f90eecc184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/guzarorasimep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1760/7067/files/zawit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6542/6598/files/sosonozigigegezigozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7873/7302/files/rolozinujagever.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3917/8399/files/captives_as_commodities_the_transatlantic_slave_trade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8941/2767/files/66692305263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7812/3680/files/kumiwaro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4940/2016/files/jotubudiveravilixisip.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004f9b.bin
e179eec418f7a877a0b4fb17e4bd538e2debfeb479940efb74b80268dc104c14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F9B 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006197.bin
9b32aa94b47fefb427858312482c10e8ea7ad58ed9b0e6b893087b76b5b72067
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6197 10412 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000084f4.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84F4 4324 bytes