Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6bc48813f6f2a37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 09:07:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ead61a3bb17b9296df8ca65e88c3b935 SHA-1: 58125fa0ccce601afe3cca10b2c86337c5ec07b6 SHA-256: d6bc48813f6f2a37011b460974b0cea468900572dc8508a55639c9b5f5e16413
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as an answer key. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic shows it's part of a link farm. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.com redirector, 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=answer+key+applied+auditing+cabrera
    • http://files.detourla.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438111/0b3cb0b0.pdf
    • http://files.purplewax.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380440/09f9ebbe4b6d32.pdf
    • http://files.sarahbakpottery.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696029/piwugum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7977/0019/files/vejapoza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2610/3971/files/dosudugevev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0741/8274/files/razefakawizasezidikiwobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8383/2227/files/centrifugal_fan_impeller_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rofimoluxita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0722/7542/files/95908800391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rejukimuvili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9880/7202/files/potinekodufik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0536/9758/files/zezeremuluroni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3956/1630/files/wiputu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4427/8170/files/chemistry_form_4_chapter_4_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7873/8335/files/admission_form_aiou_2018.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_off00006e39.bin
9f8a968cf86a97de278c3c603573240027edcdeb466bb843417c6cb6d82bb66b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E39 5628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008176.bin
877725a7b2679bd32609a4c8abacb4d16895daf7bdddf8a9225d20857e5f6456
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8176 14380 bytes