Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81ac4a0bed018c6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 05:19:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7fa72116b13c71b9a4e3224c4805564e SHA-1: f11d9dfdee52614b9913afe93884ed1e040a8d33 SHA-256: 81ac4a0bed018c6df8f33209a181b902d82351a510d1999ec27dc525c2eb807b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector URL known to be malicious. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.cc, which is likely used to distribute further payloads or lead to phishing sites.

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/wix?keyword=problem+solving+model+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7e39c992a4b74e0f9d33056ae11eda31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77d535_332ed3b5408c4edc82bb66b69b000d0f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0abcaceee78f4e7dbff6621253b4b752.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e643da_9602d7ec893b41ffa0af2f3860fe411d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_59b09932d81247ee9886183dbe279cfc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4a10ce090e854ed3947ec2c181d10032.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5415a_adc04ab2e286485f89944d6f352d38f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b58d21_8573960ec02940c6a2b3d48fee8abb2b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7470/7868/files/grid-_template-_columns.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3731/0632/files/assassins_creed_3_mods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5107/1126/files/30257350595.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4443/7144/files/60981113128.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0935/9520/files/86891480728.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_off0000641c.bin
fb2223a21009534ae10704676eb4ebaeab22e033b773c9f279fc6ecab0683d7e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x641C 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007640.bin
aef5bf9fb26298cef56d5619c7bad2222d1acd816ab5e6029ec07aadbc419a26
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7640 10300 bytes