Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8c3b9c31237b0c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 03:23:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 090e5b85f0444e8b7a5f6a72f8ff755c SHA-1: 322bfe3f817b5d705207631a0a3c8a842484d9a0 SHA-256: e8c3b9c31237b0c68a30b73a61e3717fefb8b8f506a6b4f818e2234375558572
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to obscure the ultimate destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to academic materials, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious links. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to potentially harmful websites.

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/pify?keyword=technical+graphics+communication+4th+edition+pdf
    • http://files.rosewoodprt.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398129/5021338.pdf
    • http://files.bluesparrowcreations.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969791/fepuxetawevode-gizifika.pdf
    • http://files.vicenzas-crostoli.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483253/9062675.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5861/6733/files/65663632306.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/73881495537.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7387/2807/files/1522243406.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8103/1061/files/68458842365.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6086/2874/files/mutiboti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5554/5497/files/46836386337.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6263/2360/files/jubusafodis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/50499258105.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gigogew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/47475247643.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_off000040f7.bin
442dae673815849457c56c4c29491fa56da0a1cd293cd89fc99ed860e306c3d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x40F7 5608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000053de.bin
2d9e5ae1b9c812b5172f63e3ef4c9ad915f06867bc6b4ec46142442c8a94580c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53DE 9208 bytes