Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0ccb2cf408fa113…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 08:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f31d0bad035434c8621bff843d564d6c SHA-1: dcf65fa16adfd24cec403088781d4e617c8b10c4 SHA-256: a0ccb2cf408fa113d6c0f03e28980504883aa29b678216bbe2693be0224c5768
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, disguised as an 'indirect speech exercise for class 5'. This indicates a social engineering attempt to trick the user into navigating to a potentially harmful site. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=indirect+speech+exercise+for+class+5
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_60555049390642529381efb17e044f90.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c8d66_e45e9b46dc754e908c7dba68f24c4765.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8fd79bb1f9024c4aa36f6bef30a955dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5c3f0db402aa4661add6d593c1d3be1b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16d77500cd1d46fa8b209575995d7c32.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf79db_525a70a935604e4e8459ccd28263451b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f16bd_6aebc1d6303a44daae2233129b638496.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_43597533810547daa7ba4c2ad732d0a5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/9138/6529/files/kijukazepogonifugunenux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0736/9639/files/medial_meniscus_tear_treatment_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8059/8172/files/lepozadopetalera.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1539/6776/files/bijeb.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_off000054c8.bin
949b2a9f433f52b1774a704be463e6bea2d6517949fd5db66258bf99bda472e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54C8 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006706.bin
7a93cfc1777acd16daefd68a40974ea7c0839e40a105c349099e9b91aa2fb3da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6706 10084 bytes