Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97d689d1d03009a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 10:46:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec12f1a743bd841dec103168bae8df4c SHA-1: 7ad5f41c7b039d1c8158a4beef156b0021898721 SHA-256: 97d689d1d03009a636e12667a1f917e56ad15d94448acca8b8da4fccd4110c38
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=run+on+sentences+and+comma+splices+worksheet'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding a large number of external links, many of which point to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure for a worksheet. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=run+on+sentences+and+comma+splices+worksheet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8289/8840/files/facebook_cash_machine_blueprint.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1926/3397/files/jepisiziwegig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2304/8609/files/adeemsa_qorannoo_gochaa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4642/7034/files/68526584929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4829/6863/files/mowagemanefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6183/7981/files/35835377016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6845/files/54591776944.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bbc5d4d42aef426d9b0325a200230972.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d11437a55e144f4ba2404a42807a9aa8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1de29_c2bf9ad5d921441c99709c5a14d57719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6101/0842/files/bilogoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9282/0382/files/prime_factorization_worksheets_grade_8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5969/2198/files/18630984010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4461/7885/files/ruguliwifubofuwagegike.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_off00007677.bin
f5090ff093dde3778bb0514e2f08fa345acc59a23fdaf56a062bc8ea2f4129bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7677 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000088ff.bin
01979997c232a3da51dc307906f3497fe767cd32e59e788ccd918230f55cfbf6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88FF 10836 bytes