Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6492774869d7b90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 14:52:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f4f8f95e8ece612af0603eba3f6b5c7b SHA-1: 0d7d3cd2766b7143a670454251e1b71ac4913368 SHA-256: b6492774869d7b9015b7675c547d7ed0191de53adbe72590482ce8b0e546bcc0
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 a "mixture alligation questions pdf". The document also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to shopify.com, likely as part of an SEO-based distribution scheme. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated.

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=mixture+alligation+questions+pdf
    • http://files.lenabio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739826/2e804670e.pdf
    • http://files.bethelagapeministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378838/9106f30d1a8429.pdf
    • http://files.johnmraftery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776120/4351283.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8542/2997/files/actos_administrativos_concepto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4062/8133/files/walofaxugewek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2396/5079/files/luterisixikumuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4736/1439/files/5495087395.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3809/3990/files/easy_origami_bookmark.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7964/7900/files/miocardiopatia_hipertensiva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0505/8976/files/91710225869.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0476/4068/files/banow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5310/4790/files/dark_souls_crystal_halberd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0263/4148/files/vawil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7094/6456/files/67071413827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wawufomujemozinabewa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/41841620016.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_off00007ef7.bin
f3174217cb1c2614a851026133538a1f762618b4bfa2d4c4cbf71fbd6c2c0484
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EF7 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009176.bin
9c53c9fe1b5c3060aa31cf882c2147ea9e61cebfb60852b54e197f4b36bd2a18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9176 14148 bytes