Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 775eb4c8cfb69247…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-09-07 04:18:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6da4c00d22b77856ef2edf882959220b SHA-1: d7f5a34b6c94863d58d45865441cd2ee49f97a78 SHA-256: 775eb4c8cfb692470d94412f7eb7f62d83a3c6ab7e125d3761fbdc1ac9d5dc94
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the URL https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=elementary+algebraic+geometry+pdf. This technique is often used to obscure the final malicious destination and distribute traffic. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

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.me/wix?keyword=elementary+algebraic+geometry+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4bdc6d_dcf43c27a8314c7eaadc08c86a06ad95.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fef806_a8b500fc1cc34c648505ab2ad416b698.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/771ea4_ca49fe78b4e04202875b2b69aee3e576.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05e3ad_5f9d4209e8f94043937bf10efc8c990d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/37500246986.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8405/3669/files/34727055655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3894/6981/files/21601731992.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bec8430e06fd4bc1a8199ad3303ab3a3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b47cb_04b8e17ea9ff48768b5fa922ee89f6c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fa6f14_4bae1189f8344155a7355ca4f8829105.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83b1b3_413117ca59784807869a886852d26579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0252/7897/files/45926415971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5284/3676/files/dean_martin_roast_cast.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8959/0427/files/49006140889.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2831/5293/files/78327060855.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_off00004ce1.bin
e93ea086a1667fa6605a0f7ea6a9b175accb1806853bbfcc985367f8f4e32f80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CE1 5496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f80.bin
d858a66ac6ab17a78f3f9e5f979d6514e293be0f376361853771508f32ac4dcc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F80 10028 bytes