Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc983ff30555e3e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 11:26:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 094563e91be1eff7daa994c047050048 SHA-1: b3f2a9f1e32fa02d92bdc504b1229c4a0e1750a2 SHA-256: bc983ff30555e3e075a083c7a576fa98ebf864b2a5327d97c44400c5b1fc307b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=knowledge+matters+vb+answer+key', which is also listed as an IOC. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of an SEO link farm, embedding numerous links to other PDF files, likely to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute 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.com/pify?keyword=knowledge+matters+vb+answer+key
    • http://files.dragonyouthwrestling.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379792/rurirabid.pdf
    • http://files.lyricsandpoems-cacreed.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813821/6881740.pdf
    • http://files.durbanafrica.co.za/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814043/wowemupezowolu.pdf
    • http://files.harrisontheater.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382092/6abc54cbf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2204/6616/files/cancion_del_mariachi_sheet_music_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2174/5825/files/22820170944.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4178/2946/files/niwifodefujoxanovu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9390/0968/files/72370296535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6590/8136/files/isomerism_notes_for_neet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4285/6345/files/pujodegu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6974/2999/files/98399697518.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5436/6877/files/65632700565.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7266/0390/files/anet_a8_build_instructions.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_off00008911.bin
50b8deba9c68972670777d50a4988e3f2b04b37f34065878bb4451a96d3611a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8911 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009c0e.bin
f8285c102283b02dffbc2f8e6f9c9a842cde1859bca067de0102d0e3e0d571cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C0E 10736 bytes