Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7324d28b840d19e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 18:52:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a9c0c1237334a567c2c89367b2e526d9 SHA-1: 5737ef0a63c34172844c8a8a7bdf410bb62c0395 SHA-256: 7324d28b840d19e0b64779bbffda34e6d8594589681630b8d3f0f5440046ce5a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cambridge+ielts+listening+test+3+with+answers'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious content under the guise of educational material.

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=cambridge+ielts+listening+test+3+with+answers
    • http://files.sanabriaphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813859/jutasujumiru_zibox.pdf
    • http://files.warrenplainsbaptist.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776739/nusapajoguli.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2873/2314/files/tuzopuvefuka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0120/9251/files/zorobuwewudizaduzevebon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3929/2577/files/migirejanibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5414/5444/files/97077455747.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6156/5850/files/76189793095.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1358/6596/files/66065699423.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9468/8419/files/solve_quadratic_equation_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/2251/9205/files/panduan_belajar_bahasa_mandarin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7896/7703/files/59117669243.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2861/9168/files/dupoterugenojor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6571/2535/files/cracked_mac_apps.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0489/5143/files/82854393796.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_off00005c16.bin
af43cb3f13933f832ecf7296afa1bf5e6b3faa0a10f3bbbe94ca9bc11a321dee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C16 5540 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ece.bin
e77306e4736cc8500f56220b2910b792c0a2ecd91716af774282d0556035fa19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ECE 14616 bytes