Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8a7532ce98519d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-09-11 19:28:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 228d9a69ae6fc267397860434ceb561a SHA-1: 6cf26dacbe939567d3d09bebf5b992b6db991f75 SHA-256: d8a7532ce98519d37a7f0c9ad2ed85f155a8f0acbef5811ea40a8b12b8706cb7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.link, which is disguised as an answer key for a balancing equations worksheet. The document body also contains this URL and numerous other links to external PDFs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to lead users to harmful 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.link/pify?keyword=balancing+equations+worksheet+part+1+answers
    • http://files.blessedredeemerpb.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775677/woxaw-zosiditos-milujexozilo-lebaforugo.pdf
    • http://files.wildfireartisans.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453598/49fe56.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d954c5_6002e172cc3b4f1d926263dabece2274.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/52b593_7206d5ee34f844449e9aeec4307be0d3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7c30af_fa93cd3e8b7043588e228b9cba18ab36.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4193/7818/files/facebook_video_er.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8442/1022/files/89826561729.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3119/0952/files/ts_16949_standard.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3905/5253/files/transunion_free_annual_credit_report_request_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6623/7852/files/79648873020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/9805/4312/files/21293985773.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005d69.bin
bc08839a0de1134e3204096245b8d8cc4583bc2a3147164892b8e222c0b04466
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D69 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007004.bin
c96e94fba18f9c434e13cdd2a2a92b4aa2c4f2f2b057b10752a18ae455c992ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7004 9940 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009208.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9208 4324 bytes