Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07081827a7bfac44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.2 KB Created: 2020-08-25 16:24:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f1e4733720da3be15cdaaca6d031c37a SHA-1: 17f05fd2de53c2361446cc17ffab2d3acfa90fe2 SHA-256: 07081827a7bfac448aa253a0d3e942f79636336db9c92b5455113f257c98a6c6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though partially garbled, includes the URL and text suggesting it's a review answer key, a common lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further indicates a link farm or SEO abuse tactic, likely to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=momentum+impulse+and+collisions+test+review+answers
    • http://files.sathiavanee-veeramoothoo.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871891/jidutemepupaz.pdf
    • http://files.fresnotreeservicecompany.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740609/tapipebijuradir_gezomo_gevej.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/49186839350.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/8194/1402/files/62750704642.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6878/2757/files/41399597426.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1145/5645/files/bekiwuxuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0934/2621/files/sijariranekosurusinube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5068/6874/files/38630829227.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2393/9237/files/79681294328.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0654/0445/files/subtraction_strategies_grade_1_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1646/1211/files/crossfit_bodyweight_wod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/18983443830.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_off0000454d.bin
d2677a17661747b32c831c21fa8dffac0d58fcd36832d192471e0fe2d967fb72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x454D 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005792.bin
3b772f31c7c89ed443a667ebec8d720a07d56c731223f1ec1400943a1b495bdd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5792 9680 bytes