Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96d65f8b02614c03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 22:41:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c0906b9991eb84cc31c669359f9fc28 SHA-1: 60c63988b7b71d11e78e3de9d34ebb7dbbfb0e64 SHA-256: 96d65f8b02614c0398a9c5f6dca812420df60ad40c03a8d856ac7670e92e7b64
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=5th+grade+math+book+answer+key', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body contains text related to '5th grade math book answer key' and the authoring application is wkhtmltopdf, indicating it was likely generated programmatically to appear as a legitimate document while hosting malicious 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=5th+grade+math+book+answer+key
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8558/4792/files/electronic_circuits_projects_diagrams_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4922/2298/files/naming_acids_and_bases_worksheet_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2100/9053/files/78551907827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/figarawevig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9340/8409/files/aruba_3200_controller_configuration_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/1980/9447/files/firma_de_los_acuerdos_de_paz_en_guatemala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6795/7660/files/jurogarur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5014/7733/files/encyclopaedia_of_islam_third_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/20424522606.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6339/2921/files/dumowesuzexe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1269/2895/files/3gp_mobile_movies_telugu.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063fd.bin
326ce7ad18579bbb4d9fe1b74066716f521e23511a3ae37499642e33d41ba7e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63FD 5632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007718.bin
6ab51603aaf11216ae453c5dd9c0a5ea9651933952d7c2c61b511115cc99e623
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7718 10592 bytes