Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 733b9dda526c9bc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 23:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ce04d1a29259d17ec28a91aecf211a63 SHA-1: 2de4f13fb9d6f4f4aed6904560eea38b50e817cf SHA-256: 733b9dda526c9bc8ef820b0391a433e4a9db30ab56428815c2d48fa0251e270f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'html5 bangla pdf book free download', indicating a lure to entice clicks. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used for SEO manipulation to distribute the malicious PDF.

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=html5+bangla+pdf+book+free+download
    • http://files.jlhopewindsofpoetry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438676/4988529.pdf
    • http://files.changelearning.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437865/1929610.pdf
    • http://files.morningsidechildrenscentre.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302814/guvavobipix-kibix-kariti-koximoxon.pdf
    • http://files.sandracrawford.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738943/56d9d.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0185/5646/files/82832951867.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/3192715330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8164/5736/files/kelas_scaphopoda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/18728915088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1624/7703/files/nuzasoduvawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3868/7900/files/vaxukibebujitimotijoxufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5122/0120/files/40935314852.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9649/7573/files/cannula_insertion_procedure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/33374625424.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8240/7335/files/26682845840.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9123/7791/files/13831602529.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_off00008b24.bin
e343e22970bae7dfb01a5a933b19af4bb4f127c0e7d34976b49db310126246b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B24 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009e0d.bin
ea980d8feb60ac4b95ea9699b9783fe26a94cffa785f002c48044c5f54ce7a2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E0D 10492 bytes