Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d2c56615b363097…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 17:24:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5b32fa93594ef8b1ce519f0f0feedcaf SHA-1: de1ca071e36700300314a92abb49887742efbc8e SHA-256: 5d2c56615b363097bae13312570f0afc0f0ee3b189f4207632b1d423d00255ae
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are benign but serve to obscure the malicious one. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into clicking through to potentially harmful content.

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=community+tech+tree+ksp
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4a9d6_a35611fcdb5d411e926fbf739b1827d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bc0c4db397c340528d5172c59936b4ea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5b43aa52fe5544a390e22e3d4a170f3b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f26ee052378b49ab8788594b0c1bd47c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/455f95_56c59a94ed044efb9337164697ca4506.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_01c0d35c53b741568e686c0c6e08911c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c6c1_9dc451814d274b4fb06482135880f07f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_c688ae89907d4855a2f18855db018e56.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6056/0025/files/latoxonulexexerisupirebok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6587/6379/files/alp_loco_pilot_answer_key_sarkari_result.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_off00006164.bin
59d6952a353d99784596fb19eed8f15ad379a70be5d514afddfc864abff92fe9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6164 5000 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007248.bin
4db92a860c86dcdb656f7e1c3401c5b95e238a75034be706e17358626d818b8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7248 10796 bytes