Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa830c2532e000bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 02:54:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a7383568dd2930421676668ffc1ad05b SHA-1: d2d5b49082f9555d5f247c9bd64476c5a7469b33 SHA-256: fa830c2532e000bc34866efdf3b8916d2551333b884f9567dff79c20c6f271b0
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to an 'Absa student loan application form', suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/pify?keyword=absa+student+loan+application+form
    • http://files.skski.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871799/fumijifivi-vosadeguguzubok-pudez-tikekadexipowa.pdf
    • http://files.marobishop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740586/fb895d3fc8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0994/9341/files/zadutejemuboziwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0698/3333/files/neoplasia_endocrina_multiple_tipo_2a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2739/7797/files/muvivumagilamak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1262/6344/files/xituduzulope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8525/1235/files/19304693581.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0058/6649/files/gesagutipeluta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8265/2579/files/network_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/21244882445.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5995/3312/files/chemistry_concepts_and_applications_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7424/1187/files/54978452053.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4371/7274/files/moxovokepari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8880/9879/files/thriller_story_books_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7990/1096/files/blanchard_grinder_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5195/8947/files/68800289391.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_off00006816.bin
384f1a0b2736a12d359656ad6999ef7ed34dc8f7f56851e464a6cf34a7254509
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6816 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a68.bin
f5bbcc2218519c435ada96bd349fa532ac0f09a0f60746c448640fd8fd636748
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A68 10244 bytes