Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1482eb6a275333b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 23:43:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 12cc808ce37582bbfa1b9cba5a94467e SHA-1: 5375c2cbafc12d116525493dc39e48c98f5c941c SHA-256: 1482eb6a275333b235db33379c38624464626484071e0520414189f6d022311f
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised as an admission form. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL and references to admission forms, reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, suggests a link farm tactic to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wix?keyword=amu+9th+class+admission+form+last+date
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3165/7621/files/80541058919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0777/7702/files/sublime_text_2_license_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1525/6738/files/26634919827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0603/6899/files/windows_10_pro_digital_license_free.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97634b_1134a3f226234625b040887adc064f6b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bae363_4b0988520669491d88bd13d9d90fb8e5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5232/5272/files/65794700987.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7709/9935/files/86766637657.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dfb5f8_a8318f28bbe940e9a815f4274ad5d13a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67f5f7_5995d3187ff643278916f1070fd59b04.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d1d005_8744741e455f460a8295d907b55a3dfc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efb3f0_d12091cc6ca34a56917ef802f9cfd461.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_off000061b1.bin
6c3c5b6b55eb5c9a7a9381e303c396d1b56549263b2477418b17b1a69c1c6a95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61B1 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073eb.bin
b823108c470a23cce4177b70a02472d7e270911c21a69b2421cabbe60cf1b31e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73EB 10708 bytes