Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eef73a34493b259…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 23:51:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 339c5ee7d505b709257f504f51776a95 SHA-1: d8b587d719b10059a7f154040280e6eb424eed3e SHA-256: 9eef73a34493b259d522b21221a56dbd72aee93b536fdbb6158deae32691dc29
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this PDF is part of a malicious distribution campaign.

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=havana+alto+sax+sheet+music+pdf
    • http://files.jennifercronk.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437806/2616584.pdf
    • http://pozuvo.giornatadellostudente.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710797/8438084.pdf
    • http://files.notyouraveragechurchgirl.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695321/kedojozefurupif_zekawufugugora.pdf
    • http://gafixe.gwhsspeechanddebate.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483200/2046937.pdf
    • http://files.klasifiedco.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874329/lokowub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6134/6466/files/dexutupiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7645/9422/files/fobiziwas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6248/5407/files/8841675076.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/3960/9252/files/buku_agama_islam_kelas_10_kurikulum_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0398/4547/files/52471121998.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2818/5239/files/54518841158.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6799/8362/files/64862354006.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0835/0615/files/bejidobolid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8106/4853/files/dupopudakip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5221/2130/files/25405711952.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_off0000590f.bin
003edfc17b4c17c3d021073d608d2ba820a1c5e1f7dad2392eea5bee69d84d68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x590F 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b4a.bin
099285fa55c5043771f1ed74a1a123367e1f156acc25fa71f44785f76032c58a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B4A 14684 bytes