Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d62b76eff970cd6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 02:17:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d1029cc438bf4941f32ea46d9b1f8172 SHA-1: 981773cd122997a175e9dcb09ca2411949b0ef03 SHA-256: d62b76eff970cd6c25587281604cfab194a7d11cf974af3b6deffec317ab236f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=demonstrative+pronouns+worksheet+grade+10`. This link is embedded within the document body, disguised as an educational worksheet. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=demonstrative+pronouns+worksheet+grade+10
    • http://files.claudelafleur.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874180/wimibasa.pdf
    • http://limuxe.unityofstockton.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776677/b80ce4e024.pdf
    • http://lajivelap.artebom.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696067/3972911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7651/8049/files/wulopitesowurok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3476/2664/files/15202080403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2897/1681/files/piwesowerezowa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2348/3548/files/70469493176.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5851/1510/files/descargar_diccionario_biblico_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1075/2663/files/26944830581.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0101/1614/files/69321366579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0392/7973/files/miwexovipuvelap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8558/6849/files/bulbul_song_asomi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1055/5041/files/advanced_sql_queries_examples_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4968/0028/files/kigewipufarexamu.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_off00005e4a.bin
4926eea56e51c9d6e9be055d59a5b02ecbc4ba8a262241c3b7f2cc7e115b0b41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E4A 5748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071d7.bin
97b14abbd475b74f07fb699c50895d4872e92af9d87f94cf82850de7e3a1f177
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71D7 10104 bytes