Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07e4baf779747200…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 08:37:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 61abd761fac298640bf44e88edd47c41 SHA-1: cf45e15812b9bd81138bf8889517479d929b64e9 SHA-256: 07e4baf7797472003fd40fadcdfd0b6c6d48547bbebb9ac8c1d56c1e7f446b1a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to what appears to be a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One prominent URL, "https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cell+biology+multiple+choice+questions+pdf", is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to direct users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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=cell+biology+multiple+choice+questions+pdf
    • http://files.bearvalleymensministry.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775025/7990019.pdf
    • http://files.texasavidoutdoors.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438216/nufofereg.pdf
    • http://files.rchatierrasanta.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383892/vuzasolosuj.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6891/5863/files/tokibuwivupuxefesi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9341/6349/files/matura_angielski_swka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9303/3117/files/88438596721.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5170/3706/files/lowurekab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3580/4319/files/2003_honda_civic_hybrid_repair_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8762/5369/files/86442193562.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1510/0826/files/sims_4_beards.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7895/0810/files/lazarozujosixusozot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3406/7615/files/32407876312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8733/0464/files/80493733061.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2674/1405/files/bitogexudagutowenepilala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3239/6447/files/light_gray_color_code.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_off000067f7.bin
bcffa53a804b80c9599c7ccd98a18de2eced60bc9318722209a59c3aa7385e34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67F7 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007aa4.bin
1e74a0e531b5264c06ed1517e01e102b7ad687fbb4bff3df065ec5e04c647c76
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AA4 10480 bytes