Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9dfc80440fa980a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 05:06:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 19075534f248d0b949a69b903d8709e2 SHA-1: 12d3beb583eefdd7d1b7f4f55fdbbc6687560ee2 SHA-256: c9dfc80440fa980ac0ae8cee02c2f00f065f9d8d81514cbe29938d285558d241
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Cambridge english speaking test pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a phishing lure. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads 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=cambridge+english+speaking+test+pdf
    • http://kudar.graciouscross.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739783/zenogoja.pdf
    • http://files.eghsbandboosters.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384679/mutedij.pdf
    • http://files.way2wear.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874566/90f535a66e9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6202/5624/files/rupizikenezusenekos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0635/3823/files/apparent_and_absolute_magnitude_of_stars.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0736/1703/files/geological_strength_index.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/salelixakibikiziz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/90442425312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7167/6314/files/50153859511.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1875/4971/files/41562659380.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/27392185694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8561/7570/files/86200975461.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7257/7946/files/58491741341.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/ligumugazawebamupewav.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_off0000518a.bin
d0b858f72cac6c4dfdeec3eeae46fb6ac13337cef72db9a0bf4b49692809f3f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x518A 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000643f.bin
0ece67aa0311ec5902ad960f36a0f2a2f3677f5f050eac2cc56306be3b041fbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x643F 10288 bytes