Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dabb4bc26756a8b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.1 KB Created: 2020-09-17 10:11:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e0e1707b5998d7c14ecaf58cb9388228 SHA-1: a4cf2b271745d90b1620528e33743006d7848596 SHA-256: dabb4bc26756a8b4668796e458828f4284bb8a91c40a76c9134d419c01e4dedf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.me, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to '4.3 acceleration practice worksheet answers', indicating a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.me/wix?keyword=4.3+acceleration+practice+worksheet+answers
    • http://ziravo.weweresosmall.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406686/671182295e60.pdf
    • http://kigutu.creativedentaldesignsaz.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/nufow-tovomu-gejusaza.pdf
    • http://rolowunem.southtexashomespun.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682076/da45c.pdf
    • http://fogirizax.mitchadvent.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637046/tajujisokifa_gojedomobeke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9311/2472/files/26727454505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6702/3259/files/29285646109.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8948/4194/files/bobubobefusesi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6812/9431/files/lamalasitovikitomafex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5936/3488/files/7185659841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0763/7661/files/reported_speech_exercises_mixed_tenses.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_off00004cfc.bin
790b5d8f20e04fdfe272ec8cd46efb135e1203b2040795a2054bc21ac8c8ac17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CFC 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f57.bin
4aa3f4c822bd473681096d1bed511a4051c4b0a64e1dbf2f5b1314fefab70eee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F57 10136 bytes