Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e77ed33c5d312f71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 13:36:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2ae7a52f14e8a048630f6728b8c1e209 SHA-1: 1eeb3e1e42e65f142d46cf40b143af2c4d9ad333 SHA-256: e77ed33c5d312f713cd33da65d765ce7b3556d14be34cb9481af146151fe4da5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic identifying it as a redirector link to known malicious infrastructure. It also contains a large number of external PDF links, characteristic of a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=physics+for+scientists+and+engineers+giancoli, which likely serves as the initial lure or redirector.

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=physics+for+scientists+and+engineers+giancoli
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b9cb98e7aaa244ebb303e8d3e69481bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c4561c2183f94120b0ed500ba06b6d3c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93c935_eae9dc9931de4b378c0c3619b355b810.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8056c5936ebc4364bbd367e4684a9b01.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3e6c9b4ac71343a5b67e9dac467c4afb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b4bf28d886724b2fb5d66d5345da4ae8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_72a36348727c4e4a8f130218f187521d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_79d18a12e5bf4706bb62bc5982b6810e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_702f54417be04f348fcd7bf88b2809b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6284ee5ef7f74cc293fa6d99cbb42d45.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0471/0521/2566/files/tokuyama_daigoro_making.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1503/7351/files/19592106001.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9431/7981/files/56405889687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4847/5541/files/1727645077.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5108e906952e4dbca29928509db2eede.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f0328a08538c460e8b0451d8c349ddf8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1ce5197c9e444e41af22a31f73cc618d.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_off00009632.bin
de781cb3a25aba9ca8fb96277a8131ce3c5530c5b868ee0d36cc5d7f2da5a398
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9632 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a86f.bin
a0d022840078ac73d5abc5f0016508f6de119812dda8a40b5a857ca57256bc99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA86F 10360 bytes