Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ba288121c46baa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 04:01:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7367e660cc80fb8bbf0522f026dcc8f3 SHA-1: 129c5d54fcd0e56e5c3ea03cabc06b7931515a74 SHA-256: 5ba288121c46baa34617b26e4d7a53fd9792f62f9760c1331048da8db61cd130
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the same malicious redirector. The file also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic to mask the 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/wix?keyword=lectoescritura+primer+grado
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1733/1100/files/pagemaker_document_to_converter_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3191/0821/files/les_examens_biologiques.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80884551140.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6183/0037/files/nordstrom_mission_statement.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_82510f476aff418780b6dab1ffc9593e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4646e54ddc0649e38460ee08418bcde8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7439/6063/files/ratnakar_assamese_movie_all_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5385/0528/files/4981169003.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef533f54c95f4070b708a506e7d2da2d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6733231724be44e0b5452b979acb5e2c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0c3950af51744499a95e42673eab7dd4.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_off000062c6.bin
a5b1f0df9a909b6d8eef2295e98dba60673b6d0f26941ea986aada01762be227
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62C6 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074b3.bin
a71dd0fe6b9b4f3022bdefd4aab67586b947a7a60b4d8a3cdf2c5079b4e31692
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74B3 11468 bytes