Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 081b29a2beeaa317…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 18:50:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 07a7f7e60e4ebc9a50b6e04227b0458f SHA-1: 49159e2d1bd7bb6df51687368cfa4fe010277a23 SHA-256: 081b29a2beeaa317337a59abe297a78b1d34b8360159bab30cda992cac7d07da
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a book review, aiming to trick users into clicking these links. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a redirector link confirms a malicious intent to lead users to potentially harmful 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=built+to+last+book+review+pdf
    • http://xovatafez.stjohnthebaptistdeanery.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606056/felujidezuxesososum.pdf
    • http://files.anzonaconference.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379699/4645048.pdf
    • http://files.thepsychicangelguide.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969300/jodejobu.pdf
    • http://viwewa.hisembracinglove.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776330/bujudenomogefojugax.pdf
    • http://files.theflourishsisterhood.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398156/95d18288fa830.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6598/3655/files/60959654850.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8915/8554/files/60995664881.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7162/5634/files/jozasixip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/34606309219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9313/9364/files/6502026735.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5857/7051/files/zowuzulalaritovaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3208/2594/files/poniwunaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3996/0737/files/process_capability_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4705/0661/files/aarp_spider_solitaire.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_off0000727d.bin
9341f32ff5ae5d657709c70b122e4beab3f5341b33f30b8d8c750d4f1a8d63c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x727D 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000851a.bin
25e695df557591881a7c82a5c757fd0e5b0ed9741f308d8cb51f39b91cb12bd2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x851A 10552 bytes