Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c97c9b0d4d7acd81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:23:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 16c041028baae49dc14f4dc881a4271c SHA-1: 402e492081c62d64c0e53f212ca5781d72aa2cb5 SHA-256: c97c9b0d4d7acd816f645a7a4c4deb9758afa7e6f1ec87bdd851cf4376e9d248
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to deliver a secondary payload. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a lure related to educational content, aiming to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure exhibits characteristics of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation to distribute 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.ru/pify?keyword=class+10+civics+chapter+4+question+answers
    • http://files.warwickshireweddingcollective.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969762/xanidojosurukexix.pdf
    • http://files.harmonychorale.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454850/4317897.pdf
    • http://segipek.gingersurprises.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815176/3644449.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0386/2440/files/87956659436.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5306/2046/files/stadsplan_kortrijk_centrum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0204/4316/files/jabuwun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7532/1499/files/les_pays_du_monde_et_leurs_capitales_par_continent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6718/7108/files/gujirejuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7680/3990/files/detejenuwimomev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5829/1093/files/bokoliv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0668/0484/files/pimojawijumiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0641/9367/files/mikowagatejerido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2210/4229/files/3675569454.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_off000072bb.bin
882cd107757cbc62f50ccc3388e90d27bc1b980f0828a763cbaf3341b0eba475
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72BB 5488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008578.bin
25623d377d4b840488e28dd323c9db09c54be7a4928e7e7befaa49768a880016
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8578 10244 bytes