Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5cc558b2b6307b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 03:30:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 25d4a6eab63e4beb96e15eb6670a8c3c SHA-1: fd97a648dc16e5a4a9d2400b96c655d1a751cbb2 SHA-256: f5cc558b2b6307b963880f38f1b533fe867c8f6a168cd9419a01153a19d07dfc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'ttraff.cc', identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text related to 'coding interview questions' and lists numerous URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDFs. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure victims through seemingly legitimate content to a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=coding+interview+questions+narasimha+karumanchi+pdf+quora
    • http://files.ecofitpt.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681053/9105361.pdf
    • http://files.trinitybaptist-illinois.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775304/ae3f032fb14bfcb.pdf
    • http://files.electronpotential.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408209/520518.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/52889839155.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9494/1603/files/9894421740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4584/5152/files/7771211421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0047/9391/files/31957651248.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8462/8633/files/vugategemibox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1720/6946/files/42249304164.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3290/3829/files/59292711544.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9180/2777/files/58923003318.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3314/0127/files/68777818655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/avery_labels_template_18660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4466/7553/files/ametropias_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5011/3943/files/array_function_in_php.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2725/9811/files/mezasurewofuvuxiro.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_off00006c96.bin
8ce88260a6d205cc9b235960b695ff42f0ca47190f124e5ef20ba108870f3e36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C96 5784 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000802b.bin
152645e6cb6e6ee9ced3a050f5286f0b405ae918e2120eccc29c9e42b22ea85b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x802B 10632 bytes