Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bd96eab83753b72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 20:39:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4f8608f79e1b7cfe4bed17fcd43cef55 SHA-1: 47bf2e1e1ff6848a76b7a276193ead14dc263ac5 SHA-256: 0bd96eab83753b72e97ec4b8b4359f60359e5d46ab4b3689164631e91f1839ac
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=cbt+manual+for+panic+disorder', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body text, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to 'Cbt manual for panic disorder'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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.cc/wix?keyword=cbt+manual+for+panic+disorder
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4748/3552/files/sum_in_latex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pesaveput.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8786/9592/files/paper_towel_absorbency_experiment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1181/6099/files/comptia_pentest_pt0-001_certificati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4416/7064/files/worirujoginalelogewajegug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/8253/1225/files/mejak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/0426/4354/files/albertinia_weather_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6265/6152/files/1272872553.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/3079/7477/files/daxijozusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5584/8355/files/california_general_contractor_license_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1883/0492/files/jesasoruf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5658/5114/files/bezadafebivinonipa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6894/7616/files/tazep.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_off000061a9.bin
958bd46aeff99ee631111e90e0b77049d9f0a4617c253b7d8ecf00f464516bad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61A9 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073b0.bin
86b99e25e3979c482130a0e6eed204f75c269867ebe55b8cf518d1061c518787
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B0 9996 bytes