Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef3bcdcd03107f12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-16 20:49:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dfd5de9aa45e71272ccee89569cefbd0 SHA-1: e435b7642fafccb9fcc2af195eff443ec23b8a77 SHA-256: ef3bcdcd03107f12842af8ac7890052f61695f1acc6b544c0bbb3f5022cb5586
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as a reading practice test. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the URL and text suggesting a lure for educational content. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm used to obscure the malicious redirector.

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/pify?keyword=reading+practice+test+with+answers
    • http://xoxumuv.abaofwisconsin.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163744/rupivosejosigololo.pdf
    • http://files.etudist.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452840/a5353ab.pdf
    • http://files.mountzionpbchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607093/2087433.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1479/7981/files/91745035143.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9672/7962/files/49045925421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4375/7992/files/application_letter_for_fresh_graduate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1560/2337/files/zekolevetanuvokokajizafa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9345/9093/files/likuredetiximin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7861/4168/files/after_livro_4_tumblr.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1237/5207/files/korurebixosodoxunafo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7035/6632/files/mercedes_benz_glc_price_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xokuwunojuvilil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0890/9734/files/purpose_driven_life_summary.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_off000082ef.bin
ee396a1b26f75420636a6af052695e668e28d0629366625c321d1e18ee6581f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82EF 5400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000955a.bin
507d77e7cc7efa3ec906c0ddc9b74107359803f5d98b63e5d1ca4d690de7e66c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x955A 10432 bytes