Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a78db869540905a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-08-15 05:52:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 849bb6becdb72c6bd55448273e3f2f24 SHA-1: a4a81ea624fb3dec4de99011cd23ccd6a0ef8cbe SHA-256: 7a78db869540905af7f854feacae93cb702f7d80534897d6c1b755cbf0c46129
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.cc, which is disguised as a 'cert basic training participant manual'. The document also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent.

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=cert+basic+training+participant+manual
    • http://files.willowwildedges.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856443/xukopiwome-tojazelapiz-kasivezobisu-sunezurawuse.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5676/6882/files/55695796560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7346/1660/files/xadurujemekupuxal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3955/4727/files/gurofijepifetiximovivawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2758/6457/files/17112160382.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0185/5646/files/womojaguwodomuzifem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4977/files/basics_of_networking_and_communication.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4312/5405/files/2997861760.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4764/8406/files/wipalo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/womove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6828/3294/files/rilonuji.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_off00005658.bin
226467e9d6a472db03bdf2967445a0557d266fbcce5514ba5f9a626eafea084d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5658 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000683b.bin
ab182cf018a6b0ecf1056ee64d301f4dc4fcabdadfcceb22f87f2b1f7692c058
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x683B 10012 bytes