Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02ced555f89bc9da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 05:45:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c6d2245b99106ff572db89c684cc958 SHA-1: fbde9a85527ef0c882ab3c2463a40f7288adeb9a SHA-256: 02ced555f89bc9daf6d20ecee85cd0639a249fb525272dfeaf6031378d40ecf9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded URLs, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain a lure related to an 'Altair 4xr manual'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or a method to obscure the 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.com/pify?keyword=altair+4xr+manual
    • http://fufivomoj.nhconstructionlaw.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969284/9658554.pdf
    • http://kobugiwaj.hotrodhenrys.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739173/67652.pdf
    • http://files.margateterrapinrescue.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740905/ruxid.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3609/0269/files/functional_data_analysis_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4061/3286/files/charismatic_leadership_article.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1841/1417/files/19875389714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3161/7945/files/infamous_paper_trail_drone_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2033/6802/files/61375296644.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0364/7912/files/15357899395.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84302935330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4765/5323/files/36359457109.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4760/8730/files/jovudelaxop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8225/8334/files/al_itqan_fi_ulumil_quran.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8945/9368/files/fixidimabolixekilaf.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_off00005390.bin
314dd3c46658453b5a9281502d17bee0dd79148d5b67d7c55d56215c5567efc1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5390 4800 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063cb.bin
aa9bfd472913a936a88903c6d035d2fabe62ff919bfa908db7a3e582e9a0a410
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63CB 14580 bytes