Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0989736f5279b69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-16 00:45:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 27383f122c7590ce4cf9b8f3af13429e SHA-1: 7b5a79524313814ba3736e3f39bf1e219313abe4 SHA-256: c0989736f5279b6973cde6119a20b691c9011e4a0f24757affa98ce7be6fa539
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one that redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.cc). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a tutorial, likely a lure to encourage clicks. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via embedded 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/wb?keyword=canon%20digital%20photography%20tutorials%20pdf
    • http://femeloxa.mshoeferstotallyawesomewebsite.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383373/nokemedupaxatox-ruxopafun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0821/9547/files/istanbul_new_airport_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9643/files/67019192362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6350/9141/files/bupegejijefaver.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0086/3643/files/human_relations_theory_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4392/9757/files/57515955732.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8373/4943/files/educational_research_quantitative_qualitative_and_mixed_approaches_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3654/0056/files/gamavixevafabezixel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5850/3584/files/batata_doce_beneficios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1338/2044/files/maths_textbook_grade_12.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5217/9364/files/wukiselenevigefab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2359/6693/files/88734545121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4244/6231/files/funojuvisuxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7727/0692/files/brahmastra_by_ajay_gulati_download.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_off00006678.bin
5ec0ee9aedde6cca12b17e6d248b50998c477216e1d6780786316cfaddfebb97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6678 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007884.bin
28f589e47ba1278d999547f1120c3e40606646406ea61159ea0436a0c1e81a97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7884 9956 bytes