Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb553e40f0e9c856…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 08:41:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a4512409349fce5b02a5a03e197bb26d SHA-1: 971b7740793e5642106a0ed433fbe69910134ce9 SHA-256: bb553e40f0e9c856849bf3299dba298bceb32cf449939e88639a03de8462132b
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.cc'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious URL, suggesting the PDF is designed to masquerade as a benign document while directing users to a potentially harmful site.

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/pify?keyword=dilations+worksheet+pdf+kuta
    • http://files.renndrive.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/momozadoxa-xiludeduseven.pdf
    • http://files.janeramsey.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739883/043c5fe929c.pdf
    • http://files.drderickclinic.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070798/e63d571860bc.pdf
    • http://files.lenorathompsonwriter.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856984/5513442.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8127/7342/files/xijikexikakem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6441/6661/files/rimibamijeravujoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5481/6667/files/22365020192.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5789/7882/files/70261856975.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0993/2440/files/ford_f250_repair_manual_online_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2625/0917/files/diwopifivazebujigozes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4492/files/legend_drake_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4829/6857/files/77252288596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71061356311.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9821/9420/files/dovosasegot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6935/5670/files/american_airlines_microservices.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5444/8286/files/sajetakuzan.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_off0000444d.bin
eed7335025e3c5fffdd094af639c5e5328856ff2c3b15b8d3b18c5846bc621f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x444D 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000055e1.bin
da5ab3b44df8eeaa80f78686c8ab11cbf374b01800721a9b0c28907900952db6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55E1 10120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007855.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7855 4324 bytes