Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55c5dac909ec7b7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-29 20:47:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 17b8375d38b58091f12ae19945fde58c SHA-1: 121db196b3ba29d5405735073787d65b8b1f0eff SHA-256: 55c5dac909ec7b7aa5c4018e3e9a5de029110ddbe5bf4bc6fe16747e267a8e46
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=undertale+the+end+screen, which is identified as a malicious redirector. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, with the first being to cdn.shopify.com. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through deceptive links within the PDF.

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.com/wix?keyword=undertale+the+end+screen
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7049/6661/files/alcatel_lucent_omnipcx_enterprise_communication_server.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7578/7162/files/bogle_little_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5845/3918/files/mezadajirabaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8152/2599/files/24717605840.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6872/7194/files/after_effects_cs6_templates_free_windows.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1747/0101/files/under_maintenance_page.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea2f88_66f211f11f6f43b99bacb8b2e2608d0c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0b7039da0d7347e782c7dc53500da723.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c8bb3b6efe8d4c31b864064d81324398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1044/8798/files/wii_sports_resort_iso_eu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8267/0485/files/73625024490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8115/3177/files/zewef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0196/0854/files/never_enough_piano_solo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5907/5477/files/zenozogad.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_off00007e5b.bin
db1db58dc19d062a9d2260fd38f5152f714f4a984295628cc1623fc8b26e1476
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E5B 5016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f57.bin
f2cce594569e31942dc67a590491e57a438cf963c76add6b6df99d03ea1e3106
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F57 10372 bytes