Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e919b327f823b77f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 12:46:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 18f53173574adcb7e42d6aae508b34a0 SHA-1: 05e952029242582dc630beb971a256ce12347090 SHA-256: e919b327f823b77f81f6d3875aa2fa3f46dde3d9934f8ca9e5c9d5e83ad0cea3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a high ML score and the presence of numerous external links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. Another critical heuristic indicates a link farm, with many links pointing to PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting an attempt to create a large number of seemingly legitimate but ultimately malicious download points. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cytology+mcq+pdf, reinforcing the malicious redirector finding.

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.cc/pify?keyword=cytology+mcq+pdf
    • http://files.equineassistedtherapyofnj.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070379/vafikugumegofoxevid.pdf
    • http://pasepis.nicolejonescommercial.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607013/5533286.pdf
    • http://files.lawtonacademyrobotics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738912/datodinisasar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9923/5228/files/tilekixozetoxitaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5978/9472/files/sanovim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2784/0669/files/98006799231.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2514/5760/files/98989571223.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6734/1981/files/75304439416.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/64651630376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2642/3708/files/livro_epidemiologia_basica_bonita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7511/6960/files/9500007424.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8258/7039/files/fawikinojiva.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_off0000671c.bin
b17266343056e37ce123ed5c9d1062080ee3650eceb0ba424128feb6dd9d5c0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x671C 4760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007765.bin
c3433b55a99121455a2bb0a71aaf54e96b7981397f67f261ee860d0a58da9d02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7765 10864 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009c45.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C45 4324 bytes