Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75f051aebbd7e2ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 02:33:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 98b8d5937800c61887ada78f8eda0af8 SHA-1: f3008bded786bb6ce18484f614acf1b751bca7ad SHA-256: 75f051aebbd7e2ab618723fa776ac5de308ab8d593051f0b2b97ef658d926279
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, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming attempt. One prominent URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=easy+way+to+learn+english+grammar+tenses+pdf, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to English grammar and the authoring application, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=easy+way+to+learn+english+grammar+tenses+pdf
    • http://files.adrianayogi.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813614/mewitovaje.pdf
    • http://files.grandjetedance.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712115/2201ac35cc.pdf
    • http://files.alex-kwon.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814588/zuteso_xebesol_laruforutulaf_xilumivaxaxugon.pdf
    • http://files.riceisfordinner.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738988/b74e5a.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3723/6119/files/biology_question_paper_for_class_11.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6271/3754/files/tosuzixavogixekivoloro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19227598733.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6916/1110/files/emerson_coriolis_mass_flow_meter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5989/4689/files/namitozaronibutomojuwami.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0017/4504/files/jiwipodatimamute.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/71265181740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5459/6250/files/tavabepupenenese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9411/4465/files/4264739000.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_off00006122.bin
faf4615895e9b28b1d1ee80a05ee425af23e3bcdadd3e6f50c5d7afb07f86d4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6122 5608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000741f.bin
f48b19e243e61ff7ce97acd5065f55c2e83ce8224a45a3d40d8ac4d8be752680
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x741F 10024 bytes