Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c429e6de13098760…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 18:58:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f9a4b8d020541e8104581e199484eb7b SHA-1: dfcfa71327904c3ee943ddab642df7d6a238e4a2 SHA-256: c429e6de130987609510db3e660a75272987dc2083834b76003218e019cf2a05
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=subject+verb+agreement+worksheet+ks2'. This URL is likely used to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a title suggesting a worksheet, indicating a social engineering pretext. The presence of a PDF link farm heuristic further supports the malicious intent of distributing links.

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=subject+verb+agreement+worksheet+ks2
    • http://files.addaihealthedu.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813025/6823825.pdf
    • http://files.magdagerber.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969633/pupam_xowesiwavixez_vuvowekokoza_bakuraw.pdf
    • http://files.powderspringses.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740480/wipipuwujinisij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7228/2008/files/wadolunuzefebu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7726/1729/files/gozeba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0450/9853/files/tokorixoratevezeve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1187/3688/files/english_grammar_worksheet_for_class_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5795/4464/files/setijewa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/52325197595.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3383/7219/files/deed_of_absolute_sale_car_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1868/8424/files/physical_barriers_of_communication.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/puneson.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1030/9787/files/app_blablacar_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6113/9861/files/work_experience_certificate_letter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1804/4063/files/3143095007.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_off0000563b.bin
b969e5b4757cb063bfa71e5acdf7bc66b995a5af5a6e0c9979c8a1cc68f84a6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x563B 5848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a15.bin
3e0a9763fde9475e5f5816b4adcb0bc3437db3b8d3cacc96acdc9739d0130a66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A15 9824 bytes