Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0088d23e7728514f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 19:47:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9f3293f9d5d7e7720d3f146d44a11cde SHA-1: a6ccc8e510733521f0872563f2081380f4453a2c SHA-256: 0088d23e7728514fe616f7c0fc19b2a338216551ba2d4db29e7245b89e948cc4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is part of a link farm strategy. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to a medical topic ('cephalohematoma in newborn pdf') and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results for malicious purposes. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.com/pify?keyword=cephalohematoma+in+newborn+pdf
    • http://goxod.tysonwestley.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384771/zexixuxitefet.pdf
    • http://files.lauraslacesupplies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775475/4a48e903c5.pdf
    • http://files.thebirthingfield.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411199/demejejazezide.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9798/1082/files/91083289995.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1104/6561/files/xiderek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1814/9285/files/dusojixexasetifokipuvade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6628/6490/files/tonaxitew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3781/0075/files/weginekexitipatukeketok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9058/3464/files/descriptive_paragraph_graphic_organizer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2200/8988/files/orientation_du_def_2020_au_mali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9645/files/47196528.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7757/4562/files/sobirininasize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8330/8955/files/88535555370.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0232/1307/files/business_model_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2462/1473/files/94470342616.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066f1.bin
fc61b8af72799b71c6c7036ece00cb6c1f5ded817233cc86ce908497ba7c87ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66F1 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000789e.bin
94aa97e47fd66236194566e3b24a8991624fda697a08d01378d4b5a30d31a0c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x789E 10264 bytes