Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0ff6063db9731f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 08:24:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2bfa49ca537398646a6a7dce1633b55a SHA-1: 5dafeb6330786a7ea5dbda33c7f12edd88fe8090 SHA-256: e0ff6063db9731f397bdfb7e8b2406547c462b216b49a9605ee091250cf4a2b5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=arabic+alphabet+writing+practice+book+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, while many are benign, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the malicious redirector is a clear indicator of malicious intent.

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=arabic+alphabet+writing+practice+book+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3782/4926/files/92419297363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1850/0765/files/96377661294.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2694/0067/files/an_introduction_to_categorical_data.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/8918/3129/files/tata_sky_app_free_for_laptop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0002/0635/files/fivoloserigajixobumi.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b7d8a_450e8edab4f248e3b93c03538461acff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/913720_a8f4a3fff52448eda3a8c1c4f238985f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/409ca8_5ede6f220efe4cb9a58840f6df6efbdc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_97bb5a741a0e419a82bba4f1c117ca3a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/405339_b349557ce9a9424bba27e66d0f0ba645.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3be3a7_369fa0df53be47858f2b80428aee2975.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/32acb1_e8765a67dbad44d79ce525e8e9fd7e2f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7a11b0_933e614334b541cd9123f73238e93f0b.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000045ad.bin
048fb1891f432488516cd811e7b04d68e7d39e548ca3495625137f8fb0c23ff4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45AD 6744 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005692.bin
57ec5634453d99e6c46f4f31bd118b905d103498e6fdb5df584886fdae724648
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5692 5524 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000695a.bin
0bfa5726ea47d6a82df7ef83b80ae01cf7a7d7e286481cefe74970a60735be78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x695A 9484 bytes