Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f894e23e02bb28e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 04:00:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9e0406c9126903344aaee1a50d867fda SHA-1: 23942b8469043c68362799307c8d7fda2edca0d3 SHA-256: f894e23e02bb28e13e64af16d255f2755fbd85415f16df1339d932a8351fba0f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and heuristics indicating it contains a link farm and redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=5th+grade+trivia+questions+and+answers+printable' is a primary indicator of malicious redirection. The document body contains garbled text and a reference to the same redirector URL, suggesting a lure to obscure the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and link farm indicate a likely attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=5th+grade+trivia+questions+and+answers+printable
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4713/2063/files/63737641646.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9356/5342/files/tutu_app_free_ios_12.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/7241/6931/files/77859169870.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9889/8592/files/16564861625.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9113/1554/files/bundesagentur_fr_arbeit_kurzprofil.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/078c79_168efd158f484ff884feea22548498ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0cb7a68ba40f40898af76c2d6bd1c429.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9920/2467/files/zubatotupixuvudidomuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7673/0533/files/fofuwonomibeles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1464/2069/files/78461661417.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5525/1605/files/rearranging_equations_worksheet_maths_genie.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d25bd7c384f64513b634e0770dba64ed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/286fb8_e112532b95ed43cc93ef1cde5b199403.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_affe1b30498c467f87c4f69187cf9570.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/32acb1_574cddd46b9845178fb9f59ce50dc5a1.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_off0000a494.bin
3a76fe15d0a92e0f9b84b0f44990a17883da393e342ed199c81cf68f26fe61af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA494 5668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b7dd.bin
2b7722d8e519c9966bd37f221c29d6be40523849399e53a985c15c01b28dbc44
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7DD 10940 bytes