Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e5184ec04d9c918…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-09-05 23:18:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8cea04bdcd2b2cec157cc2a60592532e SHA-1: 3b99989228ab17a605e66fde7a4fdbee08b387b2 SHA-256: 0e5184ec04d9c918e66ecc29fd86e30b278aa1529dc5bd93d1df2532879ced96
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 known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically the URL https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=railway+air+brake+system+seminar+report. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.me/wix?keyword=railway+air+brake+system+seminar+report
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_45d168df0d544de6a846328f3b998d86.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/405339_15ec3f7dfd334142ad7de0bf02e61485.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99a8f2_d37705f71bc3441b8cf27e6213f81f96.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_76caa8574d1f42748c249e5a7a8c8f39.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0286dd_d71e3825dfeb4fb9b1defadaf1ca706a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ab5ed_5bde0771d6fb4b0780ebfde52cab7022.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9bd8c3_1cd2b59b902840d79c5a327ecf9c0f06.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5905/9615/files/scalp_acupuncture_and_clinical_cases.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3140/2395/files/garden_shed_plans_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2627/6775/files/ragepovemasopa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3290/2806/files/44438280107.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8229/3141/files/12355624.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/469aea_2e26807ede794e84af9f8b07c3b55acd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2b3f46_708f451648434578ab877a1df17a9024.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_off00005e47.bin
47f5b6657adebe841456ac11fdfd981776f5e1cb042605b02c711f364c31b3aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E47 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000708a.bin
7042648d2b5a39e324b9d6c197a248fc1ce7217c9768e0f4109386cf510c5dfe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x708A 9900 bytes