Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fcf08bf95e1ead9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 04:13:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 69c0de2d6536e69fd6cd3d3eb0ba79cf SHA-1: 7ae5aac8cff33c0e3fc095d6df452083a321b9b4 SHA-256: 5fcf08bf95e1ead90bc786eec3e00fc63f2299c495008dc800391be95224e97e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF 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.com/pify?keyword=elapsed+time+worksheets+for+3rd+graders, is flagged as a malicious redirector. 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/pify?keyword=elapsed+time+worksheets+for+3rd+graders
    • http://buxubog.groovycoolstuff.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/ed1906977ff496.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0383/8615/files/exercicio_de_analise_sintatica_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0271/6572/files/bucket_elevator_catalogue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6649/1042/files/73028297011.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1108/7259/files/adiemus_satb_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0200/3615/files/concept_of_economic_efficiency.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6903/7982/files/53032655958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2129/5006/files/tinkers_alien_modifier.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5444/8286/files/70260352395.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6953/7432/files/91895610774.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9822/5320/files/lurarajipubufejuserekur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6126/4035/files/albert_einstein_quotes_on_education.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5543/0309/files/jesisijul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0357/6481/files/42691928415.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5794/6522/files/ramorugugu.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_off00005eed.bin
db5b5ab54155ba4d29013e965c57e477f4f33b97fa669471c28c9f68740dab83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EED 5732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007265.bin
a0960991679d75565d77731d146fcff34d8475792822ced500faa77da1825b0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7265 9796 bytes