Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1321337514fdd939…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:17:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 783197ea7ad5065af26a9f82ba35f48a SHA-1: ce55618435d0e2842c74edb9584de42297f88af1 SHA-256: 1321337514fdd939534242d2989acecf50c5df8fb1d8c9b17ccff239bccd9d0e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. This suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely disguised as search results for technical books. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support this assessment. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

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=mechanical+vibrations+rao+6th+editio
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2987/2292/files/geometry_proofs_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3305/0779/files/sayak_valencia_capitalismo_gore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4470/8245/files/numuvagifusupafujir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3926/8774/files/define_curriculum_development.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5622/5688/files/41895917792.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_86f777ee659e4d8ebaa4ebde2d2fed4d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ecec20_73fbbb01cf704613a7647389ec7f9f68.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b58d21_c0e6e9f41eac4c81b998b6a8d4556be2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/3673/2566/files/xedam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5417/8216/files/76297052556.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3488/5792/files/overhead_door_legacy_696cd_b_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2106/5640/files/bsc_chemistry_question_papers_2020.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_off000062e8.bin
8a22630265c59d6a10ada8467675ae2d568caf4cf9dde7bda732b08aa5713a47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62E8 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000752a.bin
8f684637fb101c995890e5592ba383a4ff17850a70f7af545b0eea63787c163b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x752A 11536 bytes