Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f22fb36ce7806701…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 14:17:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d2778d52560182c884d61d495e42b3c SHA-1: 52bab2de0bb8ecd1ff922578637951c79a21718e SHA-256: f22fb36ce7806701717a57e3c95df512f35b74f5aa1d6af9b91ad4f000261383
152 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 a link to "balancing chemical equations questions pdf". The document also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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=balancing+chemical+equations+questions+pdf
    • http://files.yetholmonline.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607163/rivuta.pdf
    • http://files.lenbarriehockeycollege.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682124/zozote_pakedinovade.pdf
    • http://pejetek.worldpairsangling.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775429/3913229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4944/1687/files/91442847626.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9321/3855/files/36648458129.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9228/6363/files/40405992431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6761/3077/files/52992485168.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8948/5221/files/192159324.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30549310566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1389/6352/files/93912544637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/24863128440.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/68513135127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rixaraxamixenapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2532/5465/files/wajosapunezaduwusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0212/5733/files/45008826871.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_off00005fb5.bin
5e98685cdc245dbe2f6aa0c5679c361951778a7fbc024884f771b70c1c177a2b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FB5 5648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072c4.bin
40439a45913cad04951ef7d6786e05d637d5e5edb36cde94f88a0e26eb7de61f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72C4 9908 bytes