Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd9c966d16e6963c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-09-05 20:58:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 308e0fa8d67e8e4deab788d6cf8bde25 SHA-1: c5cbe2618cb932b47af6bbc5ab94ab87ea13273d SHA-256: dd9c966d16e6963c21ed4d7f0fd7dad8645b2e0dcebe1fb52972983666a23a17
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=pioneering+merit+badge+worksheet', is designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=pioneering+merit+badge+worksheet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0642/5249/files/23784323444.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5098/2821/files/31686249888.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0504/files/vafedijejusovonuvofitevig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/4068/6489/files/xasuwewom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2973/2245/files/39735629864.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4468/3419/files/bandit_s_moon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2505/5389/files/toyota_pickup_repair_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7330/5762/files/lopoxuxafed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3de8a6_8b8a7bb5d7c64bb4916f2087650c45ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8bf3fc_9e7df512287c411b9ee1e549dabfe292.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e5d97_02c1891a434244a0bf6671122e6d07a3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ef7486_1ecc2a2f5bcb4d6889d9698988bd633d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ed64d2_2955c02b2bb74f88ba8537b7ef9ab1e3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/afe78f_2f1f70dff8e64cc9a455b05c79b00225.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8e1900_b2d532073e7341a78ec98cbef1ba391c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_1be9d126fa4343b486a9851e76f55a74.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_off00006d92.bin
f0a94a26cd558d7c39af5fb2421c4943b40a818f5f959f5ddedc64f4e902cb09
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D92 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000802b.bin
bf480bdfe249ae7cafdc0460f573312c0159a3c3120a29ad6401d8528ca61fd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x802B 10068 bytes