Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c202ec98f4c6ac4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 15:43:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb28bc27d7a1e260bc5e5f4cab44f5c9 SHA-1: 2766cd1a4e57bc118e3b48b4fe3f5745c95feea4 SHA-256: c202ec98f4c6ac4f2a1c1409f125fca3ee9b6b186f0927d9fe74bfc24457d19d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a direct link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and appears to be a questionnaire lure. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely as part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for 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.cc/pify?keyword=questionnaire+answerable+by+yes+or+no
    • http://files.breneman.club/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070434/3322815.pdf
    • http://sedubi.roundstoneponyshow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739348/wugel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/25668779603.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0423/9770/files/similar_triangles_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9923/5228/files/jopabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4447/0945/files/90766742459.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7723/2790/files/network_layers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6913/7305/files/sorusixuvig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5657/9228/files/autodesk_inventor_frame_generator_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4292/9821/files/xegokubagiler.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3846/6467/files/46413763487.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6172/7647/files/google_angular_cdn.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5239/9777/files/1710303643.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8082/7558/files/urbana_sociologija.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_off00006fc1.bin
54b3224f964292b1d75b3101588f89f08199c0b26b676f4c681ef234562fe6d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FC1 5072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008123.bin
bce44bc9af912a2decbb68efba4f5b332703e659ea803cea280d1e9d92457d78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8123 10680 bytes