Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 027f196030b02cd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 17:17:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: db870dbae21362d9f4f6893af4d1d696 SHA-1: 7205d2bcf8561e877b1dbbf7109c3ab3ee9e713a SHA-256: 027f196030b02cd3dc80fa9f0ae206e3af0717622b60b6a5bbb7d6fab0dfb8f5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirector infrastructure like 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is 'Acca f2 course notes pdf', a common lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful sites.

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/pify?keyword=acca+f2+course+notes+pdf
    • http://sudezufaz.owlingdog.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/repabugobegivusijudi.pdf
    • http://files.penrithicepalace.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856877/lawowalalafaxopiroj.pdf
    • http://files.fertileground.info/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071256/ragosadobu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1615/1455/files/wonajerigixulupino.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0790/7752/files/twitch_moderator_commands.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/46905239833.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5811/0363/files/74553818037.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6305/8340/files/the_literature_book_big_ideas_simply_explained.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2159/0951/files/zemiwakiro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6714/6397/files/miwubarorazezaso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7474/0639/files/fuzirosibanefimasiwawi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7079/0558/files/24941090511.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0649/1797/files/19850356842.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006055.bin
1e9831fe0535af63e03b6009155ded23c9b9601ae55fdc43f7a82c6fb833fffc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6055 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000723d.bin
78151de2cd10f27776c09f56d407691fc11a61463330d5af3eb5e72f34545152
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x723D 10284 bytes