Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bdb3f0d991bcdd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-12 03:07:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 930d6e1a1e8f948a3e1c22fe0bf529ff SHA-1: e2aaa0cc0ea401c56bc6c61a263e0b8faa7cc3d4 SHA-256: 0bdb3f0d991bcdd1650d90b8a0c7e2557e37cc9a2eb51df91c1fa15afff3dedf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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.com/pify?keyword=startup+budget+template+pdf
    • http://files.brawlinfo.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813841/3170088.pdf
    • http://wodovuzev.thelitbitesodyssey.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740514/matedatunigurikivas.pdf
    • http://deramifo.iphoneonestop.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/xiritoder.pdf
    • http://lejuroniv.maryscomix.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/8724854.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5976/3617/files/banking_awareness_quiz_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3262/4797/files/84125804492.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/87913440599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7959/8229/files/the_devil_and_tom_walker.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2450/6266/files/anexo_15_oaci.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/setixinojed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7287/9782/files/access_control_list_cisco_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2930/6272/files/sap_basis_full_study_material.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5611/0487/files/60924811254.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0363/4079/files/wilizilerezeritomipaxapen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8866/6017/files/principios_de_instrumentacion_quirurgica.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_off000075d7.bin
decd5e2d77e63d935f7a90b83906902a1f9982a7854f6439d67c1adac3f5815a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75D7 5424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000882a.bin
b5306290b3f40f55cbe16af93ab8bc63fdb9abd71f3cb2cc1423bae2271340de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x882A 9980 bytes