Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2f72c710711f4c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 02:56:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c7fbb16240d504da3540636dd8a3ee6f SHA-1: cdc93de8a8e52d3aa6c00f135da3dbfedbd6a708 SHA-256: d2f72c710711f4c3d1f8f85a031dcb884a4486c225c2efd28cb2fe70afddbfa3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=converting+repeating+decimals+to+fractions+worksheets'. This URL is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient to classify this as a malicious 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.com/pify?keyword=converting+repeating+decimals+to+fractions+worksheets
    • http://nenomaj.bradentonfiredepartment.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712380/lixosujejilo-sewapafolaga-lixoveboto.pdf
    • http://files.championcoffee.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606397/2541455.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6326/3910/files/kingdom_hearts_strategy_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0315/8433/files/system_analyst_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86372263330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2522/5112/files/21050263615.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5221/1099/files/57626249404.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5313/7576/files/characteristics_of_romanticism_literature.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7077/4679/files/struts_2_framework_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4172/2263/files/bitekusobo.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_off00005d03.bin
98e9e7773be37ac0107696ede6f57a24510aef6a1446deda664863df0dd6014b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D03 5688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007048.bin
cd8f0e13c2044de750838521517259ff67b5f8a5a176fb6d49be218d528afdbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7048 9896 bytes