Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4d0c5a93b50ec21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:39:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb57b348452e84cb71cb5347dbb4b50b SHA-1: f66b274f4c30cd865166cbe7e4e11b3993c9742d SHA-256: a4d0c5a93b50ec218ceba11062b7051274c8df1f12b8ee75d521d23c1fb61ac1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a worksheet answer key. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF was found to contain a link farm pointing to numerous external PDFs. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=momentum+conservation+worksheet+3.+1+answers, which likely serves as a lure to download further malicious content.

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=momentum+conservation+worksheet+3.+1+answers
    • http://files.redrockpilates.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681392/9255355.pdf
    • http://files.pointofactionpdx.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874211/0d7e5b5c6e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0568/1562/files/suvanapofafuxapepumot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2518/7491/files/zedoxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7208/6423/files/393514297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9231/1206/files/78988352798.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3900/6615/files/35498724481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6405/6225/files/wozamefapubogexefeme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3635/files/88883918850.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5143/4659/files/xatesirevubusutaxulomam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1685/5457/files/anatomia_humana_cabeza_y_cuello.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9763/7535/files/80032663388.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3343/6066/files/rinolej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0263/2104/files/amadeus_selling_platform_connect.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004de4.bin
07e22fc8faf733c325db817db879df08c830cb6610c521ee6eb4e21bab0779e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DE4 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006016.bin
9faeefdca54a12f72aee35d7851e6224eee27e4c99226ceba9fafefc0ae9d9be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6016 10212 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008302.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8302 4324 bytes