Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75c5cec7becf9206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 16:37:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0f451de06637f8fed1a3567a5add1b4a SHA-1: 60773926ba37fbffd7b6ebaf1edd3a6a3c28abf3 SHA-256: 75c5cec7becf920613acecd1c4e4e6dfc0f102b2fcc10cd1b8b6ceb1ffceec4a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the attack. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a lure related to sheet music or academic worksheets, designed to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute the malicious content.

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=nuvole+bianche+sheet+music+amazon
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1969/7303/files/permutations_probability_word_problems_worksheet_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/1915/4086/files/85635537785.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5955/2155/files/energias_renovables_en_chile_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6186/2810/files/satawoninikefeviwajibipo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3863/6192/files/alter_ego_frances_a2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/0011/3813/files/10539204477.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4868/8033/files/achilles_tendonitis_exercise.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3422/9398/files/zudimavutinazodunotibuwid.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_811a76de6e2a46d895548fab17035b52.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_79e5621b3b93465c933d78aa27bd31cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a9b238016fc24d2ca61a274b4c7a0ff0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3b60954656eb4c149fba766bfe93ab8f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05900a_3246cddd82ce4fbfba779a831de24152.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004735.bin
359384e7e3a6b733174ade9a1f2694d90532e8bf8cc3f674bdfde0910b957d6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4735 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058ad.bin
49e4875f729057c4809f6081eabef6387587f2cb0468186392a10c68b457a302
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58AD 14444 bytes