Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc4b4a162942a3a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-09-03 02:36:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 275bcfdef4fe8f202f6df70fba82df49 SHA-1: f493699c12062c61a5b76997b7a4c5012fa4eecb SHA-256: dc4b4a162942a3a46d2ac9161d606a3c0cf50ac0c8f1734c9deda615b025530b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=factoring+polynomials+practice+sheet', is the primary indicator of malicious intent. The document's content is a lure, disguised as an educational resource, to trick users into clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, and the PDF structure itself did not reveal further malicious behavior beyond the embedded 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.club/wix?keyword=factoring+polynomials+practice+sheet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6195/3191/files/23969340091.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1510/0840/files/13885192078.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5742/2229/files/convert_to_mov.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7182f3_e47215fdf4a846ac9e409ee1feba2820.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/44b221_65659856ae23422b9daf8c88f1d940e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b604d_fe0b804220d940ce82c2b21a0ef819c8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9601/5002/files/49607671519.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3716/2657/files/systematic_risk_and_unsystematic_risk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2634/1272/files/juggernaut_training_method_excel_spreadsheet.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_off000046b2.bin
6519e47f95052abe45a1661a30655cff3ff8f4ba314d7e9eb8733e50530872ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46B2 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000582a.bin
3ef9a94f16ddd36fbd7d9248a6f0c0e92e2ef431b8995fae137531d36247daa0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x582A 9948 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007a3c.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A3C 4324 bytes