Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 084213b01bbf8e14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:25:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e8eb6b5909b75af377fa5a18607055dd SHA-1: 28cef421583e67ad306c0d19585663a1105cc558 SHA-256: 084213b01bbf8e148d1cdf72071bf4704d6a480643f9b479c87ec0d4a4ed6496
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically the URL https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=avatar%253A+the+last+airbender+season+2+episode+19. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, indicates a potential SEO link farm tactic to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=avatar%253A+the+last+airbender+season+2+episode+19
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0403/5221/files/vigawevovino.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1540/4711/files/33661225772.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0219/0235/files/schneider_electric_product_catalog.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_689b1f2325164b57a705b751a241adb1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce0e6d_2db32ebf32b54bfa9981f56a006bdc2f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a44510_21968f0b15ae473b9ff59bd41c1c3a41.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f23478dd962a49229d888a6a32ad5557.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/837d34_079ce783a6f74c78b181a6be231b9369.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99afdc_c3624e09650d419e99486921596cfb1e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vexib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3095/3627/files/61353261299.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_off0000c60f.bin
d576e9e1c4c8229b06cc1dc25ac7196747fc1225b29567c1028323a2b9bbf97d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC60F 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d925.bin
269f49d0105bb0028331d2fd0a92698320d495031e223079a249cad90265ed42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD925 10516 bytes