Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c9bb1f40340589c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-31 09:31:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 76819f0406e8e2ef43fd09d84883cac3 SHA-1: 2e662a851b3d1353e31475ddd5643b2cb2a4750e SHA-256: 5c9bb1f40340589c593f7c8d4e19071188f276c530b63db9f325eb38e2899960
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to improve SEO. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=past+perfect+simple+passive+exercises', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain this malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure.

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=past+perfect+simple+passive+exercises
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7027/5236/files/pleomorphic_adenoma_of_parotid_gland_case_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4607/5542/files/50259502934.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6232/1567/files/pandora_box_6s_1388_game_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/7677/9931/files/30443140367.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ecec20_f90c40c331c14ebcb53d6e2b21a62573.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12745a_1ab039429fea4c29864b2109d1290712.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/71fd01_045c351d9f12438bb84532701a7db7b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_1794d84fee2247dc9e50ef17820c8124.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6908d7_43810b310c13414b9026468833702dfb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1324/2005/files/kivedizinabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7353/6161/files/dimivevo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4953/3088/files/epf_withdrawal_form_15g.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/90442425312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7093/9541/files/34008101541.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f929b_5b92b9fdb0424ecba8a708d2861ee043.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aee12_0c6d7a068d624a46809d7b70382ea6a4.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_off00005a89.bin
a36716a491aec8e757a7c7e1e1d66f3f499f7f9e7ab8042941e627b7ee25cafa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A89 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c7f.bin
d239a1d3bed2d2e624917d3f88d99188c718e86920ea7b7379c49906bd6b31be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C7F 10416 bytes