Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 694d365c3dc5383e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 06:38:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3264041778cbb050bedfdf048f8c28e5 SHA-1: aefa7d3e687a03d1325a65757d1fc689c31aafb1 SHA-256: 694d365c3dc5383e6f8dcc390258111ab24f4680213f890cde8eab629ff4df1b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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, also contains this URL and a list of other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is used for malicious redirection.

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=active+and+passive+sensors+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7443/7791/files/fezafilimodeda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7914/7430/files/photoshop_caricature_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5704/5913/files/42477389479.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3f88d_b9e32f91849648f1be62664177b9110b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bd3d900482cb45d59024eacf05b8b21b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7a11b0_3a96b45a39de4d1399b6cb14d975c412.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fbccce_8b71dc5d6fc7472a985e0e108b9bac41.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_34c3d8857fb047e7a1b7ed9bca08d85a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f103bb_8cd2a5500f7d47d89f22c6d0c5b24c19.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_e414108e196f442d876993b7397c5733.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16f9b168beec40f4aba744411290e806.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9e46784d0e14422c82fdf6e6567ef99a.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_off00005ddc.bin
6c460b2ba87c2d8770907dbdb9d071e10282bef5643af6346c757c4e92c9de0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DDC 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f7c.bin
e09c6214477074014af9b1d751f2fa12c7dbccde39675cfb2d48f8ce115c6f6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F7C 10528 bytes