Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1948412bab231fa5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 20:03:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a2f6c844615bdc8193034ef696708625 SHA-1: 5c9b45b50d87b5936a654b7a76949c3b910e8e69 SHA-256: 1948412bab231fa51a553ade906c4ab131a8fed8fcea0535cf31920946bf9a46
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDFs, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=iti+application+form
    • http://piluxujen.coheartgallery.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969179/4898171.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohit
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/45235944591.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4578/1665/files/8541902481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5834/0774/files/88617671276.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9540/9311/files/majipupugamanetigipuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1332/2398/files/caia_level_1_mock_exam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7369/0017/files/35814809095.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2466/2173/files/autosomes_and_sex_chromosomes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7257/7946/files/kinadopomususesafizawofi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000697b.bin
a2053c005a7b5315b6a012db6f91df6e0b5e8442a5b75aee40b492021b41e66b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x697B 4920 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a15.bin
01b2636fbdf38dc1d8ec9c7971690f79575bf78c7e8a4dd972081211a355f3d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A15 11224 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009fed.bin
64430e01a5193f39bee082ee6f2eebf0e9c87f91501b50f71aea5ffa354d886e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FED 8116 bytes