Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 effc594c42cb4b03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2020-07-29 14:04:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0962d091e6dd9cb052ef2b7eb5716f6e SHA-1: f9a6330f5bf29cbdacfee696ef74527f6f229d2a SHA-256: effc594c42cb4b039ef8a1ad9a7854189f5eade71ea7790d962eca7d39f3c677
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which is used in conjunction with keywords suggesting an academic lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to PDF creation, reinforcing the document's nature. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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.com/pify?keyword=acreditacion+universitaria+en+el+peru+pdf
    • http://files.jaguar50mmafitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636954/2249755.pdf
    • http://files.naturallyprettynails.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710679/ninekuwowafoj-fagoxip.pdf
    • http://files.stjohnclare.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164460/biwesuf_nenabesunu.pdf
    • http://files.tukteacompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411539/4526419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0645/2127/files/43653470816.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6862/8892/files/55200374422.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/64255738852.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3839/9912/files/610850838.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5377/files/59697772898.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/77850978280.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7851/5864/files/64473108255.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31968244380.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4852/5208/files/73512467569.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1959/0040/files/34932874410.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • https://doi.org/10.182
    • 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_off0000edc0.bin
5c6480eac55881c3b91e24ff8719027ed7c6f9e0fa607cd7a7fd209c4e15c80b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC0 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff0f.bin
272bc08c6b2d60cfa8de9c2d0135e4f2774093cd011e186fc4ba47dd60d96953
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0F 11276 bytes