Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0102638c1b0b8372…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 16:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 06dce60f5e44d64adebc49fdd067ccd4 SHA-1: a437188d14e3e79ab194722aa0d0fe7788d39d12 SHA-256: 0102638c1b0b8372350815e52676544f81f5a3014ece78935ed21b6ad8af3bce
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests an attempt at SEO manipulation or a link farm to distribute malicious content.

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=cameroun+information+du+jour
    • http://lixad.lhsdramaclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813478/3788655.pdf
    • http://pagipusok.nonatomusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813650/sawojiwitotafum.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5785/4102/files/bilangan_berpangkat_dan_bentuk_akar_kelas_9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1940/2397/files/jesiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2739/7797/files/69721697997.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bivunamu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/20785775646.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4842/5889/files/48833079208.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1239/9010/files/18423316773.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9899/5878/files/illustrated_history_of_south_africa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8007/0821/files/download_file_from_url_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6368/0932/files/99638359880.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_off00008f9b.bin
c24982927c6fd356c1f952f9c101ea4095e70751033d1e3c4e92800252bab82d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F9B 4824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009feb.bin
93706fd52764a78313d76d8b4859f7731cf66c23ffcf4ab4d57867456a8990eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FEB 12700 bytes