Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d70ce820d7563ef5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-09-04 05:43:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d6470521e23dfe480b9fc2fe069fb973 SHA-1: 594ece1bf2606fe3dd096261b246e7a5512be0b8 SHA-256: d70ce820d7563ef517bdc9df4926e46d13e208582af9cf981355ca734518bf97
152 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 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=muscular+system+diagram+worksheet+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure users to a malicious site. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and a list of other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic.

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.club/wix?keyword=muscular+system+diagram+worksheet+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4dbf3f_117364fb8c634849a50153b83a27fe14.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b13fd1_47fd1b53bad74e3d8e56376b5cd14b03.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d94ae5_717bdd16877e45ef892c27d39abc2bdb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_17963acb331840cca5b61073832d538e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/269bb8_366bb52c50cf4738b27c20a41848df3c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5811/9334/files/4506996966.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6511/4775/files/lowes_wichita_falls_tx.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1676/5087/files/spoken_english_interview_conversation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3698/2943/files/flower_desktop_wallpaper_hd_free.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d6b5da_ffebacb17cb9406eb602b2840c9ce288.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e14ca_e458dfbfa1e846eabbf657c119c92a83.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7ec8654f047b474196717cf639bc79e3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ef253e_6415dd32a9184c1f9e057f1bf4aa4442.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8098/2436/files/second_law_of_thermodynamics_and_its_applications.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7002/9975/files/48344013374.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_off000057c7.bin
873c99adf0fc7b906cc3ec5c7c2ba826f547a14f685f6162ea974080c23195f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57C7 5832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ba2.bin
2b42b4a1ecdb775e1a24f8be3c4ebe70c065b3fac49f2a83ee5813b1b9e31ecd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BA2 10464 bytes