Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b750b1c275cd816…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-22 01:03:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c6348601f36d58fad5a5fd57cd373928 SHA-1: 0e1f15d6977339bf2d852a21bd0a292aaf06a804 SHA-256: 7b750b1c275cd8168a1531e0d28c705c97efcd54cb6e96d7a6f15bd885ee9a1b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a link farm of external PDFs, a common tactic for SEO manipulation or distributing malicious content. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=following+directions+worksheets+for+middle+school+students', is identified as a known malicious redirector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, potentially as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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=following+directions+worksheets+for+middle+school+students
    • http://files.mnearthscience.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871535/5820610.pdf
    • http://files.mclellancommservices.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738596/guwusoduzobo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4421/6727/files/9119433898.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4519/9777/files/najiletuxavamizibit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3239/5423/files/nomalogidazeniteni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7400/0798/files/mawazufiwefoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2733/2252/files/54926904799.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4088/9240/files/sigaguwusakazemodapizoli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5120/3225/files/42698687778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0436/2906/files/samebukafudifolojiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0961/2712/files/66923485959.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7356/7901/files/2675597888.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_off000060e6.bin
78418b9c5f45767ca41f3a790092355e99e42d4d254b87e59d7c8d87a9113d79
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60E6 5336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072f5.bin
9e518855760ed9d90b67ea054cf9e2c28333e841b5204bd71b49a275bd303af1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72F5 9900 bytes