Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60e169d6d02577e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-09-01 23:05:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b8f10f2d502e54296cdb15666d5e7058 SHA-1: 4310b9faa49c1001acf8f33d1589c63d4f355648 SHA-256: 60e169d6d02577e951128e3c09e6ec4d1bb8fcb94f4cc93718768578afde1c9f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to lead users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a list of other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this PDF is part of a phishing or redirection campaign.

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/wix?keyword=vcaa+examiners+report+literature
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/aff7ca_1c57e7219b9043d7b26e64b8d0f5bf90.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7a13df_22bfafc8ba6f4fdd9168858478538c4e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c250_89636b3cba874e43813790d3e77e31d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_357b1d639daf40a4a9ae5e99878a32ad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3743/2744/files/conversions_length_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3969/4741/files/financial_accounting_standards_board.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7501/4566/files/27927058803.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3192a14a0fbe4f5593de9274581fa9d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0e9fc2_abe710c9f432438bab391fe37fc49507.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/432b07_e3b3aad22207448cae26d79c59e59ce9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6285/2761/files/gujarati_bible_in_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/1595/4586/files/child_education_allowance_format_for_railway_employee.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7789/2251/files/501_analytical_reasoning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/0699/3057/files/xuxidisatagagefeluw.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_off00006f39.bin
846f06f60c26fe796b3a439851c750f034c6f2dcdd6e1e77080379394fcba753
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F39 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008090.bin
b572ad1c55f7c2cd95c4394c92ff0c1ef888c7e534c1dd0a194565ab891a994b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8090 9948 bytes