Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 627478f74cb21a1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 23:49:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f5def66a8492795f505b5217bbe8a75e SHA-1: 769a61c52ce65c8c0de7c3ea61006c4eea689246 SHA-256: 627478f74cb21a1af60d3e215c3541257948cc8a6dc24be199f98cc2afcce7e6
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 likely used to host or deliver a malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is an 'exam kit PDF' and includes the malicious URL, indicating a phishing or social engineering attempt. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, suggests a link farm used for SEO poisoning to attract victims.

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=acca+f2+kaplan+exam+kit+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5108/8032/files/90428935113.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6753/0657/files/75840085330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6952/9509/files/89688919072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0026/5878/files/aircraft_seat_design.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b6ade1eebc8242aba3474f90d177a413.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f7b557e2baab4bf5881c387455893c6a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bbd587d567d54cbfa75066e5bd6bfa59.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_adcc115665af4fb4aed394875277abb9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/409ca8_4fb4d3d673234205999a73bf505347bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4ad506e16d354203ab18ad88794e9d11.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b88e3d_a6135c5763604f4e88cf1f1643b5e50e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ee60ffe794b9420398a5a1d2f0fbddd4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d59cec74088c4297bda894a3449ecb75.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_off00004b88.bin
9bf269ba112fd6c04521efb7bb929edff6091f229415a3fc714eec2806b865f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B88 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d71.bin
e807fc61cbbd5768efd18a2ae7b617be8e7db0d16c5bac42ac2ff18b219709b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D71 10012 bytes