Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 002954d0a530acad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-07-14 21:44:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 9ed4757ba8990a3032ba285cf39ccc9c SHA-1: 493cae691be16c952998bcbbe5484b579164cb5b SHA-256: 002954d0a530acad5aab4640db9788227ce7ea8f70a3a38c518ad138c9454153
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are identified as part of a link farm and redirector infrastructure. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=hexadecimal%20to%20octal%20conversion%20method%20pdf', suggests a lure to disguise malicious activity. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier and heuristic firings strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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.com/wb?keyword=hexadecimal%20to%20octal%20conversion%20method%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.goheendesigns.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303314/mevonovivusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dictionaerie.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452867/rofedevemivul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heartsower.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683140/popusimufudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crumblesbynicole.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380596/3902028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lake-kabetogama.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682701/e7f9b806011061d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.builders-bargain.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710787/dovevarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.observationsandconclusions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776350/netapixutoveso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://jogapodu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/48983611547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rovetire.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/xadavotugugoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levamine.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/5103838742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5154/7800/files/13307578323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/90685913575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/19189676900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8844/5589/files/59070797051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/81579197248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7372/3800/files/tujepomisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nasidobedibugamis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8946/1410/files/tiwamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000075c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75C1 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 9bad6a50638c215429214da1560fcda9211fde2031f15a71fc8abe2542bc75b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000877c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x877C 16136 bytes
SHA-256: 91e758ab33dc93b46e4b3647974f7156a1daee08bce39b3189b3a4c5969b8183