Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05bbfe397bf5bdb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 21:17:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b97d81c238cfc7529f804fc8038eb5d9 SHA-1: 7dade48594956024cba33da050b2ebf5324d7dba SHA-256: 05bbfe397bf5bdb345cd63b99b318c09d85c2f053ffd6d50099f84b187748ea0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=this+boy+s+life+tobias+wolff+free+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a lure for users to download content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site.

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=this+boy+s+life+tobias+wolff+free+pdf
    • http://files.strengthsdevelopment.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398008/wubobubit_bomewabivoj.pdf
    • http://files.laceibajournal.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712282/f9af6d7d2.pdf
    • http://xugituler.birjumaharaj-kalashram.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814124/1245235.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7383/1072/files/duzuwinikifibejawazipefiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6237/0210/files/55930975711.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4608/2472/files/xesunusezawenuximit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4398/7361/files/leverage_season_2_episode_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8947/7273/files/70974271239.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9087/8372/files/rukibedeme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8121/8710/files/60403649420.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pedarivorenali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7261/7637/files/pibagakizizudefawukogek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7390/4545/files/20764246430.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_off000062f4.bin
d7883536f9f0d3ad21d921f1ef2654bd0cd76358b312a103030d0f4bd9104007
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62F4 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007566.bin
0139ed59d6a6187509f7433c9bfd0b684eafb96a053e7950ff76c842af58bffe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7566 10260 bytes