Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bed5ede9d36c306e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 11:25:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b4be5694f3609edf56c82a0d25739c4b SHA-1: 95f79511081d3418f010a9e488946fa73be73912 SHA-256: bed5ede9d36c306e8c25547443b71b9d3dd4e04203edc02bc43255c067b637e9
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged for containing a malicious redirector link and a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.cc, which is used in conjunction with keywords related to academic content to lure victims. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated.

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=abstract+algebra+hungerford+solution
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/accd1f_aebd9941f278497f9d8a3fe2bfde5be5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5438e3_5079e28f1d5f4519bebb453e9600fb11.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bd7f959713c04472ba243d38c7b5edcd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ac72e0_aa71f059314645f4bfa1d01c4a507ff5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e43df2f9b04c402e848935d96cd244f6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4259/5239/files/teguvirowazemobi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2467/files/12954134590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5359/6310/files/read_mockingjay.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5420/9943/files/calligraphy_fonts_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0971/2033/files/warevirudotevutodilusumov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3395/9327/files/antinomias_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3237/0584/files/almost_a_hero_mod_apk_latest.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/7141/4948/files/vifavowikuketojijekuwo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/61b8bf_bff318dc8bde4039922c25a209fd2134.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/856cea_e47d6273cb1f47478497b33bc6be1899.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_off00005472.bin
3bf043cc7bde778247915005c7c89ae06dba5912d22f8b6c3199f521db03d3ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5472 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000665a.bin
57f72e0438839eb088e89b22d679fa3bebf14f5ee6c45394dca545029871b39e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x665A 10624 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008a90.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A90 4324 bytes