Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cea47a201ea2f706…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-07-29 04:54:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 241b3424bc9af4c1be2220769a1995a9 SHA-1: 7cbbdbdb7ee45518bc7499d7afc959298d35b328 SHA-256: cea47a201ea2f706a17ce2bfda7f6960bb377b8fe9cdde00ec786800e7c96e79
154 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 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through a deceptive link within the document.

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=teachtci+chapter+12+answers
    • http://files.socialclubofsp.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437421/xufukurepafik-vikesevozekuwo.pdf
    • http://files.tylerhomesnj.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379060/vivadebaz_kudase_bakare_pasidebiroxed.pdf
    • http://files.bhberg.co.za/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856166/lumozovunapojur_jagokelapele.pdf
    • http://files.ladyteviot.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453291/7112315.pdf
    • http://files.ladyteviot.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3305/0779/files/79494754321.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4185/7448/files/57596712864.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4789/4683/files/bipafozumer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2833/3212/files/8413685760.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2946/2177/files/11883645129.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6795/7658/files/87091820213.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3128/2335/files/70405268318.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5941/1094/files/52061719510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/70745323757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0504/1051/files/fekijan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8543/0945/files/10209573497.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1727/9400/files/jovigerejapenubozejoda.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_off0000775a.bin
e732c67253edb51067a995d28c2474069a5bb8236041049de5457d6ca930ba6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x775A 4892 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008802.bin
d858dd3694e7d6bfaf63bd91884497e1e13e7f5a9a9e2583c7b6155853a19405
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8802 10120 bytes