Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7065d2d9fa6d79ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:16:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c6723bea266f80313550479b6a898e5a SHA-1: ec96b8fda5cb0b8d8f85791ef26ba1529ce00245 SHA-256: 7065d2d9fa6d79ff388d6c1193addd517bba8cdd4bb6c2f7549205771eef7695
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=possessive+pronouns+lesson+plan+for+grade+1'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, further indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to host malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=possessive+pronouns+lesson+plan+for+grade+1
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9656/4131/files/steam_s_slow_down_near_end.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7679/7081/files/3754674212.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7645/files/fupepegorimus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6668/7642/files/52443104936.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0958/0967/files/60080508640.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3635/files/brahmastra_maths_book_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3390/9665/files/55034357218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9693/2501/files/95110289815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2180/2404/files/faniropexavusowabu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_33a20c2671d049069480350bf5f2db69.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5a9305f6588b4474adc7c5e9845fe4ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63022f_76a2936bf56b4e408e4909ba155047bf.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_off00005dcd.bin
1d4eee314e9ddf3d3966964ab326df5e8053220b00df587362e466eca82c250c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DCD 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007004.bin
b636c8cfbb5fdbeb3b66fba59ee6f6f273f6e8fb7fc7d6c6bded603250d49d73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7004 10548 bytes