Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4d3448183e4441f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 00:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e76cce54cfa0e734b2faf77299e2c6cb SHA-1: ade907dc5163f895b83da2e80df5cb5ecc6f9522 SHA-256: f4d3448183e4441f92079c84085cfc7f7aaebd8da6c5953dd56855d4c05a63a3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as academic content, with the primary malicious link being https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=essential+developmental+biology+3rd. This URL is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains this URL and other links to Shopify and static.usrfiles.com domains, likely intended to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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/wix?keyword=essential+developmental+biology+3rd
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/1628/2266/files/77305865802.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/5233/5009/files/sinegeluzoko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3502/3770/files/dns_isn_t_resolving_xbox_server_names.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8197/3403/files/kohler_magnum_18.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dd7b245c3f97477db917eeb81f262350.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_63cfe6ccbf0f42599e0f28bc976ac1af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e96e6d9c99754abbb5a9873e870e0959.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6dec61e7e5da4d4fb8f6a35a122a5161.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e3c80b63c2ef4ff095a3c9af6a0180b5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5bea4a461d9d497e95025f9ffc078a22.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fe8f302857a94cf19bec3f85718177bb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2878/1973/files/azure_information_protection_scanner_supported_file_types.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6856/3355/files/35361589818.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_off000058da.bin
582898ea04df5378bf55481daf74785e9ab549d136d6eda0599aafa3655024d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58DA 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c3a.bin
650b3fc3f4cbd4372edc7083742f60cedf185d459843f33e2bf80b7fbbdbfea0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C3A 11140 bytes