Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cec02cb30c804de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-26 15:52:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 880a955bb54cf4143b670463d5fe959a SHA-1: dbe88a062ae6679d241ab837e4e6a32dda3aec20 SHA-256: 5cec02cb30c804deff926f176ac26acc7a1e174785b936f9e721996ac8c02e71
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=isotopes+ions+and+atoms+worksheet+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are benign Shopify links but one points to a potentially malicious domain. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into clicking it.

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/pify?keyword=isotopes+ions+and+atoms+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.sacicc.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636642/jukilotanolas-somizomika-lemegopilexafi-bipivix.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/zabileg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3889/2192/files/alto_sax_sheet_music_amazing_grace.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9446/5948/files/rotational_symmetry_worksheets_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/2581582401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2312/3100/files/da_31_leave_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4498/6280/files/50924126666.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0814/7101/files/collaboration_platform_for_software_development.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5054/7870/files/9319888836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0155/1771/files/80891317031.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7868/0727/files/auto_mechanics_for_dummies.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_off00005e31.bin
339ee80d9484af605288b90ed662dad5742bc07506f17c5be591791667e6894d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E31 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000703d.bin
3ea1d08af4fc1de32a71f71d698fc6c0b86b40fb3ee1f525ed88b5ce2bf40b81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x703D 10460 bytes