Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03eb24b1d45d6d0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:00:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eebd7dbf7e57403b3fa203612bdd537c SHA-1: 12a8467cdb332f45b4066bba16acad854ae31536 SHA-256: 03eb24b1d45d6d0d9e48d034e35cd3b07f18f93d3e5349461b9d17133dd9a0a5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that appear to be part of an SEO link farm, aiming to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs points towards a phishing or spamming attempt.

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/wix?keyword=determinants+of+cardiac+output
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7713/0658/files/vikoja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7510/7990/files/84025823279.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6153/5132/files/binary_search_tree_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3400/2086/files/burton_snowboards_annual_report_2017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3428/0090/files/fikuguvoluradagowofarevi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4432/8856/files/nixojasevobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1060/4705/files/rossetta_stone_swahili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2047/3752/files/24816229154.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9258/1288/files/vapazofejowa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4320/8871/files/project_timeline_template_excel_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0469/3157/4939/files/char_broil_model_4632_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9437/6599/files/black_beatles_rae_sremmurd_soundcloud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9919/2486/files/13334245186.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008780.bin
ba9e565981327c8926a4f220e73384ca7a3ba3dd97fc1d5dbcd420d12883ae37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8780 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000098e3.bin
b1951c0a34adde10835526c3c47b006cb1e035ac84f16cc9634f132f4f2cf198
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98E3 10140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000bb95.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB95 4324 bytes