Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97825b6e03984884…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 13:10:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb612bfbf792bc9f88ee2ab2495e0139 SHA-1: a1acee8a63cc1d3f904f472a8a2247ddba9c6ab7 SHA-256: 97825b6e03984884a6202e08fbf6384d81d0fc71b22a1fe2a299bab00299eb0e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be luring users through seemingly innocuous document titles to click on malicious links.

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=casio+scientific+calculator+fx+991ms+manual
    • http://files.unwrappedmarketplace.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070674/e8af0be095acda8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0283/0745/files/fluid_and_electrolytes_nursing_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9391/3756/files/mikafanadejiti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0363/9970/files/bsc_2nd_year_chemistry_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5951/0424/files/22360822288.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7960/6176/files/wulup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0054/2878/files/sogitanekusaweruz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8731/4590/files/43244441631.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8522/5372/files/canterbury_tales_prologue_text.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2141/0210/files/98875825579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/3964/2015/files/central_venous_catheter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7825/4745/files/annexure_e_for_passport.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9431/9009/files/lafakapexolobelubopote.pdf
    • http://world.casio.com/edu_e/
    • 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_off0000421d.bin
69c0c4da623ee2561c748150aaa5ba0c722ad039088236274dba626e9dac856b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x421D 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000053bd.bin
a9383ea21922a7f120f14be8684be7a844ba7dfc4c2ef2c1c43915007f05e268
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53BD 9600 bytes