Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6eb0bb1b9becf58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 04:47:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c77f058e2b62180ec03668c65427d479 SHA-1: aede72b89f012334b8c33c5b1fd73b3a47296d1d SHA-256: c6eb0bb1b9becf58c93a07a4da4bdb0755e7b0296adf51650a46ab232436a4b9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a high ML classifier score and the presence of a link to a known malicious redirector. It also contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=guardian+university+guide+2019+nursing, which is likely used to redirect users to 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=guardian+university+guide+2019+nursing
    • http://files.teachingwriting.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776416/a53a1d0ff619.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3577/6408/files/83958843182.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vijob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4339/6506/files/structural_analysis_kassimali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6368/0929/files/28740622836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0845/7895/files/loget.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9640/8218/files/kotogetowujuto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/5151/0936/files/7748299580.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/vewaboniginon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7678/8117/files/ponuxoxagulufotuxito.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8278/4673/files/73654383187.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4209/4755/files/katizemalisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1732/3175/files/dubafujurupiridapogaduwim.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_off000081e2.bin
8f621c1bff5a7f19bc07eabf2af4fa02238e5e9676cf6a1895850d0a5f50bd71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81E2 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009465.bin
86f4057f2ad6bed41e7d18fc408b5f9b217b7f9cc458eb9d04d73122b6c1186e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9465 10616 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b8aa.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8AA 4324 bytes