Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c7c31c87664eb05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 13:08:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29ba9356be29b150edbdab33222cbdab SHA-1: 3f49ee9b7aadb9c1ca27c10e2fa2af95522f35a9 SHA-256: 0c7c31c87664eb05b77b92bcedb615bcf22520daa5bbbe7784cc45c184ff6227
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to a known malicious redirector, specifically 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=matlab+for+engineers+4th+edition'. This indicates an attempt to direct users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body also contains this URL, reinforcing its role as a lure. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the redirector link strongly suggest a phishing or social engineering attack.

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.com/wix?keyword=matlab+for+engineers+4th+edition
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/34e21e_8138bf6acf6144f188a714847c7c5946.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ab0441_2d09b48b3540445cb996cc784ea56f4a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_73a80f57492649dd8f59a51421ebdead.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f4de5e_66d770675b534e54b9b0c35bd7a7a8d6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3337/9487/files/88887267137.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1916/5086/files/41003490513.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1460/9305/files/android_root_tool_free.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/37428b_d9667bcc3fdc40d8aa15517645ccdc98.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89064d_6136d1f5906449aca3fe55386ae0d836.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/80c1db_654aacf805df4b8eb7ff3b11fd5031a3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1b2ea211f6774780906f6e8b7e9151f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2486b5_78b132f71f994af7b3a271095bfa7417.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0d32edc0fc4e42489320979af73155b9.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_off00005d8f.bin
24ee968684d0e07280e2f3c0c18919394bae52b6fa4be86b7187b26e06d45ef9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D8F 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ff2.bin
e127cdb90784203554d6647611eac322f95605153fabbb8a798a9f9dad2b367f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FF2 9944 bytes