Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5027052dc7e0f243…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-08-04 12:31:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 209959db01da995e15367dd605ea0be0 SHA-1: 3b4855214a7eb0d6bf5609242cdebf34ea61f9d2 SHA-256: 5027052dc7e0f243f2dc6a6bf75543a9143afd35233d99f7e0d1daecd81e8ae8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, including a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.cc', suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though partially corrupted, mentions 'Agile project management with scrum pdf', likely a lure to encourage clicks. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector.

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=agile+project+management+with+scrum+pdf
    • http://files.betzalelarts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453432/757cff4d418f2.pdf
    • http://files.thegardenscapes.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163533/kodigek.pdf
    • http://files.attilaanddaveproject.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437363/tivunulo.pdf
    • http://timabis.streettattooevents.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969762/7747405.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1265/1170/files/38820975675.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/63491738983.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/61238086127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7712/2713/files/64047053644.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8846/9398/files/25509016894.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8461/9680/files/womeni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0669/7367/files/89908377082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8769/9876/files/26012362758.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1020/3556/files/30002650682.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3191/0821/files/zazozinoxumalaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/kaxemas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7391/2488/files/99301479515.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000746a.bin
1becd618ed48a04c4cb5e497c26eb1f4e75ccedadb4d4205c6e7890f21c5c862
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x746A 5724 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000087d3.bin
dd7139ab77ab551ca71b2982f2c1491868f44277b0c4bf0437e6aa81bba37614
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87D3 11168 bytes