Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a70cad35fb682f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:00:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a26c80a9ee4e7c5bf75820aba10ccf74 SHA-1: d34c67f75beb4368fb9bd0c2085ca86ee2b55568 SHA-256: a7a70cad35fb682f584607ef1aeb6d260364aa2de0df29312d13777b2fa56868
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a domain known for redirecting to malicious content. One prominent link, disguised as an 'hvac licensing exam study guide', leads to 'ttraff.cc', a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the malicious link embedded within the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=hvac+licensing+exam+study+guide
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_64a5360b754243ffa1bec505528476f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3be3a7_01cd269f872848e0a005888298f387b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/217d68_08aecf73a680434b8623e811ce5f43ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bcab141ecece445f992cae8c42c6ab5f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_73bd2cffd2074b3da95b4760d81bd000.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e6a1dd58cfee42ee9a569df62f8afcd9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93c935_d88f0f0c8bae40cd8c0c4b0118376a0d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5de1df_2209750eb46443dba127d0e11a00cad8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3b77402b70e643b6a85a635b89f12df1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6c032c_b4e11828dd2e4913af34257c35a85f45.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0385/3469/files/70354728526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3880/2073/files/lajikovemaxefenevuxikewi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9455/6320/files/el_ultimo_virrey_del_peru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1914/9216/files/81060365596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3000/3357/files/91923722572.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6576/8096/files/86954067859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3153/5524/files/sumixonabizumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3237/1622/files/99051224273.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0455/7469/files/61276953001.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_off000060e7.bin
86dac0090c4aa7ee039b85f8e17ffcc1a0b87108949bef1194fb1491c9cd9f60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60E7 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007313.bin
54d8d1b18a2cbe4096d8a9909e51be527c0a1af4e83e305723d325577ec85a16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7313 10844 bytes