Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d67ff5328a7d252…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-09-01 01:08:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4b2a7e70f306b5b8074840824a00c117 SHA-1: ef3e6c00932ccbf5198ee9a5d2a6740b6577adad SHA-256: 5d67ff5328a7d252a17cfb6725eaaeba9af75034682fcb42ffee495edb0910b8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=yellow+background+colour', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and references to other PDF files, reinforcing the link farm and redirector attack pattern.

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=yellow+background+colour
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/96768c_3dc824ba21ca48d990375e043923b099.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fb6451e830434a869b0256e0a060551a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/edb4a7_db7716e2976b448f9239cc7f41937f2f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_53b2a078d481439b9b22634ee2f252bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05301a_2ac1dd37ceb944b29140cc1a18c5764f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16064dedc23c41148a2f399905ceec76.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a01749_482c7b4fb7b64eafb4158045e2488596.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e6092c_4a28c79b7f304778ba92ac1265d4ff75.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dba42a_dd938d6b9148499fab213c93d3719020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3266/6524/files/windows_10_dns_server_not_responding.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2270/2999/files/appcake_ios_12.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7393/6291/files/velatigale.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/784815_65b90cbde44d470bbe45e5f4286b9d99.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de02f3_c8a0f6b52f384eeb85ff1a51b6f4a973.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_off00006420.bin
214bac3eb433bbb7ae337d1c00bb22825d359574301f2447a347ed08494c957b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6420 5184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075e7.bin
32bb7a91f276662b2f986d93e8427ae64aea556ca09e1b4519541862f6d65b31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75E7 15320 bytes