Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bc845dc7421e734…

MALICIOUS

PDF

137.1 KB Created: 2020-08-05 00:19:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: abe32358ad1f292d82f1e6401a45ea7f SHA-1: 9222cb6f5b0e23c72ce5d05c3232acabb9800a55 SHA-256: 6bc845dc7421e734e07576f29a7ace8223af264a4e7d2933cec6ab3b3e0ef370
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Traumatic brain injury definition pdf' and the URL itself, suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=traumatic+brain+injury+definition+pdf
    • http://files.achievingflight.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163738/b9a0a30.pdf
    • http://files.unityofstockton.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712080/5b86e01e.pdf
    • http://files.endeavourtrio.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384081/mudipasavigufofi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2431/8618/files/nys_dmv_driver_s_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9798/0056/files/mexejiwutaluduf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9338/4599/files/sexowazom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0389/6230/files/kupelexubefivivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6560/6301/files/negerobudokut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1284/0862/files/dutaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7338/8190/files/vodasukabi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7922/8837/files/belenibebomadomawuja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6078/1465/files/5208752931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6403/3429/files/jonikulinukiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/5152/7842/files/resnick_and_halliday_physics.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_off0001dc20.bin
49b73ca3ac61c0df5e854dbdebfb13b795177ec3fc86dec57ef596f686b870bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DC20 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001ee4e.bin
f51cf14e811a85fac20d6d785f1296d2efcc6e6eb7f05322a7f9cf6e537e5c1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EE4E 12060 bytes