Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ecbdbda56edb569…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 08:48:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 89c623fb4c416108725176df318c8d30 SHA-1: bf28220ff812bb422f2bfd16799e785d8c2eaa63 SHA-256: 5ecbdbda56edb5695b3aec310c767843433a1d0c891b84a026306fa65fa6697b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a lure related to 'igcse physics textbook answers pdf' and embeds numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.cc'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt designed to redirect users to malicious content. 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.cc/pify?keyword=igcse+physics+textbook+answers+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ecadc_20a9be9ecb6b48928f578e418f8eb23f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bf650e_3a2f1d90ba7840b0bd7532a3144e01e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c8d66_37fdeea167cb4337aadf1ab522e8981c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/270e53_b968bbbe98b243dfb5be75554bb609f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b98abb_16722943fe2c4b37918b4f848fb20850.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e79a6_abebc33cafa44fda96fb5a1e9d7fecde.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b7dc55d45e0145ca8282b173782e1f12.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1995/9463/files/kotukuvu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4790/1592/files/wefijovapofuvixovotimeta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7352/3112/files/nilavefed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7351/2359/files/98528680434.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1101/2765/files/merusimefogulo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f6a907_d6b3d45c72e64f6196a5fadc18127eea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_212b67f6c3c443baa6f3cc1608c4a70e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/739437_b9e5ca7f02cb4536903fbd43c8a7409d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bf650e_b2b087e3b189476fae43c165b36159ba.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_off00004a28.bin
9597b8781d8fed7fccb27a5250537e4b1ec9c2d14e0bcb32a86d7445d657475a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A28 5788 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005df9.bin
4066172fa01e7d2f2fb53b950d7653b8ef987da02d5416a4f82acf23ae779bc1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DF9 10200 bytes