Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88c965599850ec69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 03:15:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 486f8c309e3efee6ca0f4b398390f83d SHA-1: e30a66e388e1ec5e9d1323fc0bdcfd56e807d86e SHA-256: 88c965599850ec699527e1aced6c264d735983dc9f2c8dd76ad70defe3d33bce
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a significant number of embedded links, a common tactic for link farms or redirecting users to malicious sites. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=escuela+estructuralista+caracteristi', was flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains what appears to be metadata from the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting it was programmatically generated to host these links.

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=escuela+estructuralista+caracteristi
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d400c_f14efad8b52a431eb5dadbd53493bdd4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ebc206580f4e41639b32a3acb87238f6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_11a53feb3f1d4891977363a9b9ba0a44.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7920/4006/files/66451627496.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8022/9791/files/cambridge_english_prepare_level_5_student_s_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2631/7473/files/59789028622.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b58d21_4115fee7193d42f2bf02e582cac0927d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ab5ed_f5fb9ace05ac4fe6a35133a1901db63f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7606/6966/files/95996666483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0894/9402/files/15036813013.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6485/2634/files/72287865576.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007a58.bin
d15a57d91ed57f2461974244445e180b4a3b0d2701d65d6f86fb18851dc87fbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A58 4416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008966.bin
603c93ac6a2563b18d5a2171227d75ab1aa83bada5341a131f72aa879448b172
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8966 11320 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae33.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE33 4324 bytes