Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eb30a4597d5a87c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-11-03 01:00:19 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 21a40e3289a36ce6d8bbcb4a98be7cec SHA-1: 8d4b0ced745b24f40ecea88abccb2ad04c10e16b SHA-256: 5eb30a4597d5a87cf7356fce2cdb3ddb323bf761b0e15d55449c1ef4bf8bc535
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised as an answer key for algebra lessons. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive document body and a malicious URL.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/123?keyword=lesson+master+answers+algebra In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365591/normal_5f932bac80a78.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369336/normal_5f8dbccf7db24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8950/2110/files/google_assistant_para_android_4.4.2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0504/1772/9723/files/kapalatetapovuwaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5544/7201/files/superhero_mad_libs_printable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fokapikow/written_business_plan_samples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/6354/9338/files/brahmacharya_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0504/3745/6032/files/47847604664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/3097/3080/files/learn_english_for_spanish_speakers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0503/1274/1022/files/theme_of_beware_of_the_dog_by_roald_dahl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000542e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x542E 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 6a2442042210870f241b122c1d5ecfbe702a40c94930e54390a0ddff8c35fef8
font_01_sfnt_off000065c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65C9 10556 bytes
SHA-256: f4841c81489e9f6840cbc874df6225c5b10e240e9d69dd0773cd79efacdcb8b4