Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6db5fbac7e2affe1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 16:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fcd0859419b9dcdfed788ee710811658 SHA-1: e3cdb612c46997c3c24cccc6ccad934f642b9d49 SHA-256: 6db5fbac7e2affe1e4a33b0da7fc92417e23c1821ecf4388bc2962839cbb5bb2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links pointing to redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc', which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'crossword puzzle answer' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=energize+crossword+puzzle+answer
    • http://files.myguttellsme.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710786/cb0b21d4e1ff.pdf
    • http://files.harmonytrainingclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738607/dujugefugipog_jaloxapavodu_kizodavevawazi.pdf
    • http://feborosa.saginawcountyreportcard.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682790/e3c266.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7675/4344/files/72385627085.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6836/6760/files/65710178134.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/71530213828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7487/9641/files/37392315460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1415/2607/files/human_vascular_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1474/0375/files/92301641487.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9762/9596/files/zelivabodafi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5552/0667/files/fuwozuwixikeluvivusuget.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8187/5112/files/sugaluvuninopevig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3287/7975/files/3ds_virtual_console_cia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0735/0696/files/open_heaven_2015.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_off00005b92.bin
3c54865d1e91ad4f62be2826df67d403c5479e20e91c95070e969e155886cfc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B92 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006de2.bin
d2f57508fef89ff9a86659cec67a08f30a48d8a7b02d5d7ef691f393ec53ebe1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DE2 9992 bytes