Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b6c879c5eb15928…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 03:21:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 15bd2321571ef03811dc7a6cc8b314b8 SHA-1: afd476df76f278af8c6665435260b0d57438df4c SHA-256: 5b6c879c5eb15928870a74e7c280300c6f19b7696d469ffb3bc91bd0ef446e7b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to 'Advanced grammar in use with answers'. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.cc, which is known for redirecting to malicious sites. The presence of many Shopify links, some flagged as benign, suggests a link farm intended to obscure the true destination.

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=advanced+grammar+in+use+with+answers
    • http://files.professorjedi.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379730/xesodexajuzenes.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9445/0078/files/google_wifi_router_for_dsl.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/input_sensitivity_discord.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5557/1353/files/getozilomuvukibebirut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3165/7621/files/gikubesetesemivazufufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6839/files/sufasevurobubeti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5365/9798/files/69829408357.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/34795368841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8137/2582/files/red_alert_gif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9930/7673/files/43126635751.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_off00005ee7.bin
210c19bbfbdb47d7b3f6ee49e31b1324d8cfa3ddb640d827208bcca5c29dc7a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EE7 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007164.bin
3a89b95c2eda11a9bcc5bb596bba033499d179770ac6dcb388b66af93f3c3fef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7164 9684 bytes