Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c1cac2073b454b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:03:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec2d0b2ffc536a4e164f6ca83eeb49f1 SHA-1: 84c47e2b3458c09e033723641e4379efab6c8354 SHA-256: 6c1cac2073b454b27fcaecc8106ef5f0b2c9ff270cd662dcb20f7b7ff77ef1a9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.cc', disguised as a textbook. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

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/pify?keyword=8th+grade+social+studies+textbook+pdf
    • http://files.duganspecialties.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740316/ead497249.pdf
    • http://files.belfastdrivered.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382274/wexamotovonezit-pabelirenakexo-robuniwobunoru.pdf
    • http://files.next-cya.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163872/zeluju.pdf
    • http://files.myplanetink.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164476/7200166.pdf
    • http://files.theatelierschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408528/3414551.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8338/0376/files/52056479894.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7505/2454/files/wiper_blade_size_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8665/files/blue_jackets_manual_20th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0866/2440/files/lixasinox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zijilo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8841/2836/files/jezasose.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3513/1036/files/bernhard_riemann_biography.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/20675343362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0454/9544/files/bobcat_610_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4931/9577/files/math_games_for_adults.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7234/7550/files/lewofomida.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_off000056b8.bin
142d2401087a1fb5a9a2cbea5e438be184d26c407624779f8dd77c9a941684ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56B8 5788 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a64.bin
ab63b862376c77afa2ee9e3b8aa75b1dbfa91d340e2b3e2697f182b3fe53189f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A64 11368 bytes