Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daca5db36cf87fdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-09-19 19:03:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a7faf916a619214b9d816e24b07ccbda SHA-1: cc9cc43c85b2d2e41d9e283eea2f82ed483b6255 SHA-256: daca5db36cf87fdb244a9266db0dce294fe87443b2363a7f8d454725b67a2160
150 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, directing users to 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=chemistry+atomic+structure+practice+1+answers'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7926/2615/files/34155885538.pdf'. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains references to the redirector and other PDF links, suggesting a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/wix?keyword=chemistry+atomic+structure+practice+1+answers
    • http://sited.tnquarterhorsesales.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164112/wepabavebot.pdf
    • http://files.thomasoudman.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407530/e860e3cbc.pdf
    • http://files.syandash.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681779/viwenajid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7926/2615/files/34155885538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3777/8071/files/science_9_answer_keys.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7949/8917/files/john_lewis_bed_sheets_super_king_size.pdf
    • https://dc435fe9-cc6c-4074-b51e-b473db48e9c8.filesusr.com/ugd/8a419d_a65d17eaec194d1fa37fdbe3870ea333.pdf?index=true
    • https://24fd5688-204c-45f5-991f-1079137e49b0.filesusr.com/ugd/2994dd_fd8a84b47ca540689f2d5a67e855b3bc.pdf?index=true
    • https://43d6bd49-a8d0-4bc7-ba1e-21e3fcfdcba4.filesusr.com/ugd/12745a_acea0cc2aa994662a59d8af292ee085b.pdf?index=true
    • https://dfc8a057-102e-453b-bb7e-98f6fcb8e144.filesusr.com/ugd/ee4a13_68572a6aed39433db11fb505d676116d.pdf?index=true
    • https://1b856a9b-51d6-40d6-941f-abeeae9236ac.filesusr.com/ugd/0b1cf2_7b6e865121fe4542a32327e2e86ce842.pdf?index=true
    • https://5a4ed51b-8b29-4a59-8e80-c8c2e7dbafc9.filesusr.com/ugd/1e52da_dd8faa071d814ea3846bf7438feb2471.pdf?index=true
    • https://92728a36-fab5-4e4f-ac47-85add782c6ff.filesusr.com/ugd/909b15_49733a29b6bc49dab0d55c4d1fac14c6.pdf?index=true
    • https://fa817b11-752d-4b95-b122-fded3b8ace74.filesusr.com/ugd/a58502_3cf31b6bda9d425cbae2bba2e16630e8.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off00004896.bin
6424c038a7c3206bb6cd82e7cb638107b9e0708c1d48f52661fc4e2f111ae28b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4896 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a7d.bin
0e7091e4afde5dbb5cd0079bd94060ff35a57973799ef13c2ffc4b6e4b2c214f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A7D 9744 bytes