Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f501c28eee64ae4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 06:15:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 07aa60a76abedcb38db85c5d74968383 SHA-1: 9a00f9980414d2cd4aeab5bc76470f2314e84f05 SHA-256: 0f501c28eee64ae4290b4ba970875a4ea4e4a009d670567908649bbb8ff84ec6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the primary lure. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to various sites, potentially for SEO manipulation or further malicious redirection. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

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=space+exploration+timeline+worksheet
    • http://files.hmongmissionsociety.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814052/kusiruponilufob.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/3170/2176/files/98564164510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8307/9592/files/nabexitalaxipevopox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6795/7658/files/90907497964.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5832/3865/files/case_files_pediatrics_5th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7620/6235/files/peletokixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7747/6260/files/xigelali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9238/5700/files/4640349210.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/43377474007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3656/5923/files/42330899805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3227/3319/files/98119705134.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_off000082e9.bin
e14906447c6b0ddc06e103d2c7efdd13a53ce7dcfe92192a032ae89f8b5b9833
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82E9 5500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000957c.bin
c4608026338bb0735f0031cea28de48413e3dfe4f51635a05829f75a608d1bcc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x957C 10112 bytes