Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52530dcb9f37fd8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2020-08-29 03:00:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c9c5daa9854dca40a28791d9b6c09d99 SHA-1: 978d7616f3f7a175d08ab5b3ddc8eeeb45b0b931 SHA-256: 52530dcb9f37fd8b612908c4029c423d6c9ff35ce690693c03ae5682cf5bb5c0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure related to IELTS reading passages, and the embedded link also contains a similar keyword. The presence of numerous other links to Shopify PDFs suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine visibility for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the PDF structure itself is the primary vector.

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/wix?keyword=ielts+reading+passage+beneath+the+ca
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3267/2418/files/nms_surgery_casebook_2nd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3142/8248/files/67198718119.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4722/3458/files/oxford_maths_book_for_class_5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2157/4049/files/96704266945.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1474/8322/files/17970599568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0737/7567/files/pamoxagapemeninuboz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9748/7512/files/dujafadazojolajubelen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9315/6259/files/aircraft_crash_video.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9070/6589/files/64250897268.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e1a2b99b75e348ca8fa1a0c5f35bb275.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5e2332e9d968435c90a88c7900c7f6ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7df349b8dad545d58ed9b50e11a55cc5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2fe25d6526324c378ceb3e72ea834f89.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_56832bff5e0b4c5982dfa82bff44cd28.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_off0000d631.bin
00214fe16c262e684807f57b19bd3255a61db0bf268a590956dafcefb77b815f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD631 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e877.bin
5bc7757207b1f4d15788c2d6f541563c9e97becd39e013edd5dd43a82a88c7af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE877 10700 bytes