Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11d7c8e220ee2d98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 02:48:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3041c7a5ce0e49a9bcc5202093858a8d SHA-1: e5ba4e56fc7c67ca165c2141a62463f56d748a82 SHA-256: 11d7c8e220ee2d982d6f9e5f446bdb6ba91a6d1463b6338db1ba2b078819b697
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.cc). The document body, though partially garbled, includes the same URL and keywords suggesting a lure for free PDF downloads. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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=grammar+books+free++pdf
    • http://kipafu.putinbaygardenclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/5001788.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/55628578329.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2449/8343/files/21532859189.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2873/3352/files/fibakoxuxafuvix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6581/8789/files/sotusapijanujuwukapanufol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9179/6902/files/91922541351.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5924/7264/files/4394537489.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7576/3353/files/is_mac_os_sierra_still_available.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1497/8718/files/mewonewabolafugeme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8113/0394/files/97412283274.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1900/9173/files/bright_futures_4_year_old.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9613/8137/files/93799802253.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_off000060ad.bin
594394448f41a502a9a540e353144e688cb4c0815b329a2ae1c1825e514171da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60AD 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072f1.bin
14ca96198ba023f99113aae08c91daf0f7a1fbde13676cb9fd3e9e247e58c54e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72F1 9580 bytes