Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dd5e3e6e990bbbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-01 04:59:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0bccb9ba224a12e77ee94dbbd638c570 SHA-1: 5bbacd103354edc2e4c3215ec13102bb4fc7d6b0 SHA-256: 0dd5e3e6e990bbbddae880f87c3f0b847c81f8293b61eed1c16c2cdf1ac62e89
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely the primary malicious objective. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a game walkthrough, serving as a lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=final+fantasy+dawn+of+souls+walkthrough
    • http://files.fullcirclesynthetics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776819/058e5.pdf
    • http://files.artclasseslevine.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453897/5037009.pdf
    • http://files.disruptivenewyork.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969354/6224022.pdf
    • http://files.drcarriebrennan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739593/5309889.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7153/6285/files/puxemilezukufivi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9703/0817/files/41589857652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/1589944702.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9596/5352/files/xinog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/27347714529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0372/2398/files/gijaremazidabixebasojenik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pegumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1024/4256/files/rugusiroduvafikepesuvog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5693/8664/files/zexipa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1711/7589/files/14092090961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vebamuwonodivori.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_off000052f1.bin
fb1a79506b6788049041c0153ad939a539bd9e9c521c2c0cb8f86479ccb07bd6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52F1 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000655c.bin
1b419e0de32be6a2b856256cb7043c4ae08ea30ac40e1a5aa96b9a2b646b72d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x655C 10156 bytes