Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95c6a17026a9de95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:23:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d450a72f0087b1ceccceee04fa3c746d SHA-1: a15e81ac19139e7e261d849fa053734caefae388 SHA-256: 95c6a17026a9de955fc1cf534e41e6a603682b4f13a8e94ef5f97194ac770365
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chemistry+a+level+textbook+answers+edexcel', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to educational materials, likely as a lure.

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=chemistry+a+level+textbook+answers+edexcel
    • http://files.kidsinthecockpit.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406412/db7698b.pdf
    • http://gemuze.pittsburgseafoodandmusicfestival.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410227/nezevo.pdf
    • http://mugotoru.milwaukeedowntownchiropractic.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969179/50876601.pdf
    • http://files.uscycs.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/bejumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/wakexefogozatimuzasunedoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2588/2520/files/54557094336.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9557/2126/files/wadegetibati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0519/6957/files/nonenebidatugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3402/4855/files/mundra_berthing_report_today.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0954/8188/files/83843042231.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0948/1626/files/bawawelepaxoweg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/3601/1678/files/pujedamezonisobin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5031/1579/files/tafis.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_off00004ec1.bin
fce01f0f3c7af56d52a922dc02fafd80261c0cb857907deb3a7e22ba7b6497e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4EC1 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000616d.bin
3d0ee3426770d5b7bc7a0c776bd331e7d6dc9c113d2c012a7a1c3ec183043224
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x616D 13676 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008d00.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D00 4324 bytes