Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 656f44a31e2f456b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-01 05:13:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2a7fdb7f848ff04fa0d4107af2f0190e SHA-1: 7d98b90632e13a9e2a9e00bb771168732d537a54 SHA-256: 656f44a31e2f456bdd69c8f88ddd9e956e9967f1f5963fe104ef3a8adad08385
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=alphabet%20letters%20worksheet'. This indicates the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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/wb?keyword=alphabet%20letters%20worksheet
    • http://files.vontoba.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438741/zipunux.pdf
    • http://files.notesinthemargin.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969357/xubawibinawagaduduze.pdf
    • http://files.ccla-ct.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681901/rejil.pdf
    • http://files.hilltoppertennis.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970004/tikazizetugixo_lanubegugopo_barat.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2725/0850/files/96006838601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2261/3654/files/32031201842.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9234/4993/files/tajut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6439/2866/files/54920835118.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5783/1326/files/vitarifuwazajeropeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zodotuxufaliga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3885/0719/files/don_t_ride_the_white_horse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5486/6333/files/48104463785.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/74916612159.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9160/7190/files/zelizu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9258/2293/files/kukalimejamo.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_off00006102.bin
d4eba30f1d5a706867b5a07bfc90cdd618715449b8efe20258f43442a8bf275b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6102 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072ad.bin
93b35e3c006277abe2443260f28e9e976fe3b41188c5100028808bca6712f123
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72AD 9852 bytes