Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08ce5f3e72182def…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 22:05:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4e912e62eaa55fcdf23b90054c49dd9a SHA-1: 27145392e95f992058cd431d521fa2f524468c58 SHA-256: 08ce5f3e72182def1f098a28078cd5cedadcc199a2de05578352b7b5075137da
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded URLs and a document body that mimics a software manual, specifically for 'Staad pro v8i'. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=staad+pro+v8i+manual', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The PDF also hosts a large number of links to other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the malicious redirector strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely as part of a phishing or traffic-driving scheme.

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.me/wix?keyword=staad+pro+v8i+manual
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0215/7466/files/70718400208.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1116/1768/files/luruvusekuwoxagavek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4467/4455/files/voice_recorder_for_laptop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8338/2427/files/atlas_copco_products.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0ea82feab48846e2affe08e1fd49485a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_256face7412840ebbca2064dbaf5c13f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b85eb0_afaacb897e2542fc9e254f70354a5fb4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c7a620_40876babc40a4fe6a8884f2f645aed8b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5aed9_d6ef10628a604631b984d8156d1fb5fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a357a50928244d5bb6def5c10414f7e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/01e791_0b16033b8e0c40cdad686dad35dc9e45.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_off00004483.bin
80ee72eed0d35d23a295eff38ce247bdcc4ff7546dc739586cbbe3769dcb340c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4483 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005661.bin
2ce72ac196b073f7b14a677b8ed6404234d6d550010fc45ab2ad0e0145ed2a7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5661 9672 bytes