Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9c383b923c8fcf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 18:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2046431b8c68a244a3dabbfff5e632d8 SHA-1: 643a1131ac3bdb46b19b320a4ae9cb99e857b4cf SHA-256: d9c383b923c8fcf408fffff81465e64b1ab076a5a71cfd1f4534f4514292f44f
154 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 'ttraff.com'. This URL is designed to lure users with keywords like 'ukpsc exam calendar 2019 pdf'. The document body also contains this URL and numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, forming a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves social engineering through a deceptive link.

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=ukpsc+exam+calendar+2019+pdf
    • http://tokuk.mathewsolomon.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740328/dabisenezofitup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7424/1187/files/zumul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9554/6273/files/19194008812.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1331/2409/files/amman_padalgal_video_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1781/3661/files/77793501628.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8166/1600/files/grammar_exercises_for_class_10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/3722/4094/files/cisco_ise_2._3_patch_6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0198/4662/files/dumpper_wifi_hack_free_for_pc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7016/8986/files/joripikiwivixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1313/4743/files/nopisowufemulateler.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2562/9335/files/loledevikekakukijini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3426/3199/files/lagikofi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8348/8679/files/1421427572.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_off0000614b.bin
85a74de0b181790aee723ae04def20d9ea27442eb681eb23fd47457331dbe99f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x614B 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073bd.bin
ce6d0b9e08b9ed7577537093d5c923eeb4723962a987f411d0579d62ef98117a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73BD 12308 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009b4d.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B4D 4324 bytes