Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c900cedea938d55c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-18 13:14:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb2e2cd9a1c7babd0b60a370a3553db2 SHA-1: 772c4e177d24a6c0d142a41b37d0038a3c14822d SHA-256: c900cedea938d55cb27bb0e5fbe69710c74860737b84ccee6916b7dc05d6945c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is presented in the document body as a search result for 'Bonnet bay public school uniform'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=bonnet+bay+public+school+uniform
    • http://files.cailenfu.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738984/5035475.pdf
    • http://puzota.archcraft.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739113/1abd66bdf903114.pdf
    • http://juwusu.joyhealthylife.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/3169033.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4686/3005/files/71068798030.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4715/7911/files/82938611979.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2023/9519/files/16484185542.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5664/4774/files/java_programming_book_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7485/5846/files/buzotedupow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8492/3555/files/disagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9304/8992/files/tebovewupukapefujozojobo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3799/0813/files/40820626497.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7593/5134/files/food_handlers_certificate_final_exam_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4944/1687/files/action_verbs_exercises_with_answers.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_off000058d8.bin
831b09f31359c119726c912447d29badce3de1c95afc75a228a4074dd5e7c199
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58D8 5544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b8e.bin
7e9d8d8627a668fe43982f1772a3ca5549cc6961b016a11bfb072a43ffcd9160
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B8E 9852 bytes