Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b3c17be7d2e5eff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-15 10:15:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5868f77d8ae2c8cd9c7d47e0b66a7717 SHA-1: 9ab00e4df0bb635462217f27821e50164ed5b576 SHA-256: 7b3c17be7d2e5eff9574975e007fa680532d2a7f2930515ba2830230348ccbe8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are linked to a "link farm" strategy, suggesting SEO manipulation or a phishing lure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=best%20stories%20to%20read%20pdf, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, indicating an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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/wb?keyword=best%20stories%20to%20read%20pdf
    • http://files.zebravolleyball.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407045/91ee06ffb90.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2154/1274/files/nowivurawilijeduzofotuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/7264/7331/files/blank_map_of_east_asia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6674/4216/files/5099102337.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8548/8543/files/ziwukeledolufowimudeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5658/5114/files/kukar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3157/6231/files/manual_sql_server_management_studio_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7257/6922/files/1617040307.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6399/1717/files/pukosevisudijasolule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5161/4359/files/guninotogem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4355/2416/files/abbyy_transformer_12_crack.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_off00005f47.bin
62a99f369259137fcd1d45d105e6ebf02941ba816086c6ed1730a8507cb9e1a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F47 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007089.bin
b48c8becfcdd19e4740da820037e5efa9fe2573b4c65e5e22f9ba567cc709d88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7089 9980 bytes