Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76e9b0220eb64923…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:27:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1c2ede80704ea5db62763998b009eb0c SHA-1: 4f25c957fa0d359faf64c62465d3362cf3b57572 SHA-256: 76e9b0220eb64923d5f005ca320ed60c98764562b34f30b2ddb0702427cbe289
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as an IELTS study resource. The document also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many of which point to user-uploaded content, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure points to a phishing or scam attempt.

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.ru/wix?keyword=ielts+reading+and+writing+answer+sheet+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c193e1e9e1414d5ea30560e1a7f364b9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee4a13_e154f60fabe14aa2b0696c5376b4a8b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c064f48203fc4112bd9e96fab972b9f6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_31ae5b9fda44486e9c06b3ae4c9525ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d1c05f_9be35d3b1eac4a71b342305e514888bc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_17821927c5e34fd98c198a30765cdcdf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aeb2c51e61864088a723f52a2f679481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2487/5674/files/galetarupa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1450/3075/files/jabaxumibuju.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4c1554_5a03bb9b50434bacb5b78fbaff90b9f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6240f8_c8841d65ab414a80aca8844bc83c4ae1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b604d_e3f107a481dd485dbf3512a3b7b07464.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000052f9.bin
376f0273f9a6c73a85c6e20601d0dc7d6c01fee126c8bf2e4d51ffbe30ccfddf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52F9 5008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063f8.bin
a8c4e85f61e96f43543d73b83151e3a005d453592e755907788702dfdd251448
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63F8 10476 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000087cb.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87CB 4324 bytes