Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e8dd1366503a206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 07:11:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb3359b492c065225032e9adbe220526 SHA-1: 7a540c5f81b3a89cec28d9014f50d16826dd6c49 SHA-256: 0e8dd1366503a2066bb4a21ca705de794338d6872882b3fa22d24366453983e4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a link farm hosted on ttraff.com, which is flagged as malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text related to a Google weather report, likely a lure to encourage users to click the malicious links. The presence of numerous external PDF links further suggests a SEO link farm tactic to distribute malicious 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=google+weather+report+please
    • http://files.carolynmackwood.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454034/2166125.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6617/1296/files/63535122749.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2821/8010/files/42425358098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0780/2518/files/telenutosupoxunanixifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2139/3320/files/12919940836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1483/0749/files/excel_date_format_yyyymmdd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1290/7423/files/vusewopuzoke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6905/3854/files/whistle_sound_samsung.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0620/3803/files/dobafaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7896/7703/files/60099056805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0794/2549/files/zemufuvekifuxanowalipix.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004067.bin
00c824a7c0613caa016225aaa2298c73e6829f3d138717adcae64f17f46b5a60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4067 4840 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005106.bin
1ebd005de67435c8051cb88a8885f423afd28960d2f46c05e4381f46e18a2cb3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5106 9524 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007198.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7198 4324 bytes