Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d9e9873e5eacd5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 18:11:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f25f7a7449ee6f86476583539bc9b868 SHA-1: 3ce69faf8dfb016bee56986b7aa3690df7e0d67c SHA-256: 5d9e9873e5eacd5ec577e68cda2411827539c68f1e733abeb0911e6fb09a2fa0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a "binomial expansion example pdf". The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=binomial+expansion+example+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5a1791_c083efa2a4ed4b02b4f9e8f0a93b06ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0dd040_d11d4a745cf646438416c5011b3bbfce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6df952_a9533f8147df4e3f8c843071df716e7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/227d0f_7e1b23f7d7e74d1daf738023dd165264.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4291/2926/files/31170504957.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9050/0001/files/7721175086.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5805/9674/files/describe_fetal_circulation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/0068/8804/files/grade_2_math_addition_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2553/8973/files/19093099547.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8957/5588/files/2997735614.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006f41.bin
c123ce438149f25a0cc424350c9b9dbb036a5e47fa70ffc363fb7b428aecdb39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F41 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080ed.bin
acfbef11a708ebde4183f0824f3a37dfbc89fce14778a72268cb5ec6290cde40
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80ED 14552 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000af4f.bin
3f616520caea2cd7adbf8385033906152ef8c30f7b3049ac7e463ea285166294
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF4F 16324 bytes