Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14321ef922d51f26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.6 KB Created: 2020-07-31 23:13:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c98de4f30bed5a18ac1e619a9803a440 SHA-1: 4d61da7c61dab45a127730b9db99ea18447aa069 SHA-256: 14321ef922d51f2617f709f78752ec306b9a470c01f5c857c4bb50593cc6d63e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing its malicious intent.

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=linksys+wrt54g+2+v1
    • http://files.paysprovencal.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683130/7c2a6e5982c26.pdf
    • http://files.radomirtodorov.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776476/bimese_jerewojapajixe_niwevirivo_vitiwezijewavo.pdf
    • http://files.rokforcefusion.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741029/noduxekutum.pdf
    • http://files.thetracegrill.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682758/96512311a.pdf
    • http://files.mariettaoddfellows.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739987/gixowifogod-lesitidafimul-desaroz-pubixuj.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1609/3849/files/81896578294.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0331/3315/files/53700587003.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9542/5191/files/61290343448.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7466/7164/files/86311565132.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8801/8594/files/dabemelebej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3871/9648/files/zefewajixakegawoxilotuke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2844/6358/files/jizuwuvufenesipenurune.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/vasapu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1722/3847/files/27972522353.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9755/4084/files/jurele.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_off0000a307.bin
0ae000241f84b12022b992536300251b8cb27e7671cc6db93976680c9f165538
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA307 5264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b53b.bin
ec45f4cfcb705e8fd4ebd0ee6700ea74d7125c5e7b079b41e3fd13e91bd37546
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB53B 10668 bytes