Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fecf959fbd218d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 18:40:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e9dfeeef158fd85ad17bd27b95491c76 SHA-1: c06e39ae131ccafdabe7e3a5637fcaf30d57e69f SHA-256: 5fecf959fbd218d0173b9801c6c8f0e1cfae6e15c5954d94ba75dd0118aa3627
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised with a seemingly relevant keyword. It also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of embedded URLs confirms the intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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=biosynthesis+of+carbohydrates+pdf
    • http://files.mermaidsutra.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739713/kulixo.pdf
    • http://tikikapa.bedsgympie.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637352/2117729.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8602/8708/files/terminal_command_line_cheat_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65817182127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2343/2861/files/canon_in_d_piano_easy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5387/5357/files/tufosapivejorewuzugefoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4011/0754/files/ninja_gaiden_sigma_walkthroug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2253/2251/files/dotinavunenakoregitusola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2634/1278/files/5896628643.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3421/4561/files/organosulfur_compounds.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_off00007cc8.bin
41c6eb05962502ce9e5fcdf113d2493efc3bddc1e052a373aeee8edb9b307e9d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CC8 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f74.bin
17c6d688bd33710ea5c9aebbaa8d4c7fb8d96a0e70871676e2c56a59569d29bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F74 10404 bytes