Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b9343caf6e1a146…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-24 04:48:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fc31775395e929e7ea40b74d6da28337 SHA-1: 6890572dc260a5e6af7af05c2feb2d3905140dde SHA-256: 9b9343caf6e1a146d117b1c7df2f3c1e2e1b67123af668d78d66f7f3f8f4f7bf
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to the presence of a link to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.cc). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Atika school history notes form 1', suggesting a lure. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is characteristic of SEO link farm abuse. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=atika+school+history+notes+form+1
    • http://duzena.cuasp.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/6810122.pdf
    • http://files.diaryofacancerresearcher.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378988/runixepanigirosuxa.pdf
    • http://files.funkbusterbaits.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740949/rulamozemurusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2859/4336/files/92669241046.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2598/7734/files/vapiwetaxokumikebawaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4885/2904/files/40058796637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7102/0954/files/59668391055.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2859/4336/files/malexibos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7691/0242/files/alchemy_books_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/29447248271.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2168/9254/files/tulojigejasigaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6826/8456/files/rirajiramedamoxisudutuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2379/2285/files/zunovavuganexez.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/f

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007374.bin
9fd3897e954712fe47d50102d8581916e5b590494e02d7a880d8be3ba3973cd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7374 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008566.bin
1a7945a24df1aa18ea88380e46de66c56759f6819bd64f1e8b8d1dc7ba787a9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8566 10192 bytes