Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b39b600c6043433…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-07-30 17:51:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0d531303e26e2bbe4378ccc18929872b SHA-1: 9b7d0f515aa93a5b3a1ce2ef73fc67ac1116aeed SHA-256: 5b39b600c6043433b382734fa4502d6aebaa04f7b8b17bfcb0240756c0b84fa8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'free PDF download'. The presence of many external PDF links indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to distribute further payloads.

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=aula+internacional+1+nueva+edicion+libro+del+profesor+pdf+gratis
    • http://files.snohomishvalleyicerink.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454090/1893275.pdf
    • http://files.tomitago.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398091/82a07153.pdf
    • http://files.bayorchestra.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070212/wibakajezijo-jidovezeg.pdf
    • http://files.lisamaki.blog/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776518/955749.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7917/2257/files/81212779175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6799/8362/files/temavisivomikabasibo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1574/8253/files/nakepawuvisawavopozarupux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2178/6521/files/wavajodo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2808/5912/files/kifuropoduwib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7187/1912/files/74951974101.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6495/8879/files/lupudifogovugudigejaper.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xomuburisuxenogiduta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1560/2337/files/5606956265.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3431/1845/files/91799205644.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_off00005a9f.bin
450700abc4121ac9d908c293b99a6ad9f76932fde37eb90147711069211541e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A9F 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d33.bin
5e154ed37a38ade4d58e7e6362b6818f931ececfcbaae967e35bb0b82b11cc0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D33 10440 bytes