Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee580410a365f8dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 21:11:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 219692e6fb5df4ff6c81a2bf685b71ef SHA-1: dec28affc73fd4cfcf59d3c268bbc9f5f336b130 SHA-256: ee580410a365f8dcdf12565f72ce8da526040ad328df35e27ddad460985b1d90
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as an 'endocrine system worksheet'. The PDF also functions as a link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be luring the user to the malicious redirector via 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.com/wix?keyword=endocrine+system+worksheet+1
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0932/5730/files/rezewupowugedagajaderawo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1026/7035/files/o_que__gnero_uniforme_e_biforme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2979/8818/files/71017926165.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9765/2376/files/29958164096.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b11fb9b6e82542b783bc017fea5d10af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_826862b38dcf4198a515204c0634ecba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/234f58_b7f30e82f87747139fed18ff29f316bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c5d40f_8e6dd51b99f7492cb5539bc606c96974.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e0cb9_f982d056c4dd47b48643b43398b11bbe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8188/2013/files/8018095299.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7973/8278/files/10618181748.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0271/4533/files/samolimejokavexugenuduka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0507/4838/files/the_pharmacy_technician_5th_edition.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_off00005d82.bin
f7016658355bbb78892a5e32c763548a6d9f7ff51081303c1f279b5dfac1d650
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D82 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f2c.bin
2db744125b56c7b50cd6ff6c8cc97dd96bf6cdb591c46b3e6408d1054a0ac9c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F2C 10072 bytes