Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a45f3dda92e58be4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 02:39:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0de7f4d095e15e0d2ee49b8b3d0ca813 SHA-1: 47db4cd9b4b287997febc7f8e3cb9fbb7815d2c6 SHA-256: a45f3dda92e58be45d4bf79cf6103fd3e71bbfc1fd735697488b5070929302c3
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 disguised as educational content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that leads to the redirector.

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=igcse+chemistry+hodder+education+answers
    • http://files.manpatools.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164093/03794e4a1.pdf
    • http://files.acelebrantinfrance.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383247/nanumudemudum_xudipojolob.pdf
    • http://files.centennialpto.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874655/4521385.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9482/7418/files/tusozusogadesosusoxew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6369/7817/files/3715038410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2191/0687/files/zubanerif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5591/3879/files/efy_electronics_projects.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wuvinotagug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5564/3813/files/91495065822.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7754/1787/files/datasheet_capacitor_470uf_25v.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7537/0136/files/47947450671.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5815/9006/files/system_analysis_and_design_10th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7938/5766/files/tavawumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4852/5206/files/45862394864.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/zosirupigigafelam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5680/6553/files/production_clerk_job_description.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_off00005434.bin
5032baa70a851df58f17e00d93bb78f188d674d5b035f552a79d3f547c42a898
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5434 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000066a8.bin
2a646d6451f13d57d7d599f19e4f7e42b1103172f8e138ac073ec5cce1865c54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66A8 10136 bytes