Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96a6163cbbb60627…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2020-08-15 00:07:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c577f3ab3ce53ad1dc1ff6658989b436 SHA-1: 7a8970f89f1e56996aaa80f1c3aa6955ea9029a4 SHA-256: 96a6163cbbb60627e81670efd6f7663897c2848375b4b289e9dbfc500d337a6c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised as a 'membrane transport concept map answer key'. The PDF also hosts a large number of other links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector confirms a high likelihood of a phishing or malware delivery 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.cc/pify?keyword=membrane+transport+concept+map+answer+key
    • http://vorobap.greatlakesgreatstories.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/9750394.pdf
    • http://files.patrickdixon.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483336/xevupoxawuwogafinobi.pdf
    • http://files.newheartdance.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384589/vevulo_nixepu_jilizel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7098/0245/files/70708998122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0826/6137/files/chrome_manager_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1141/5959/files/balanitis_zoon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8702/8641/files/zomaboxozogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4976/2459/files/cantigas_de_maldizer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9647/1707/files/pilob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7542/7735/files/damojemibevagikora.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5289/1297/files/dinifafedifamidazoxurewux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7225/7181/files/xonoligujamexux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6205/5327/files/acoustic_guitar_tabs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6998/7221/files/baluromibiderevezobig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8946/1402/files/dovoxap.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_off00004fe4.bin
6588fbb3abd58df79d88160684552835de7a5b6ad39a31b5f9d171cb46f092a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FE4 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000626d.bin
c49de3df1c247d2c4e8c148c17b5db0c081509a61b315771b343ac14a46b2cb8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x626D 9352 bytes