Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 146deedb5134bc6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 16:53:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 72600d36d7cac163c9597133e122edab SHA-1: 3fdf9c37a63ea65fa7e82fa135faa7f37d1e9ccb SHA-256: 146deedb5134bc6e2876af045c045bcce3af960c3e4e7643e3aac6b46db31c01
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One prominent link redirects to 'ttraff.cc', known malicious redirector infrastructure, disguised with a keyword related to learning German. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm suggests an attempt to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites.

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/pify?keyword=learning+german+language+pdf+ebook
    • http://files.elizabethkilcoyne.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303278/8a64d1d527f52.pdf
    • http://files.agiteysirva.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455475/vuleveka_degug_lekidami_wuvomamefegowe.pdf
    • http://files.neurovestibular.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874633/ripulenu_kamofilozenewew_xibafur.pdf
    • http://files.arborsenior.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740012/5468469.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5672/5153/files/lanesamofomanotubu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/tejowekelezodesirosi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5517/7109/files/93127814803.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1185/8855/files/42347685173.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/sea_lantern_crafting_recipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3128/1312/files/bixurok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3764/6245/files/35844489142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5124/5987/files/28699943707.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7573/9560/files/duputirubukukedaba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6743/9259/files/tufumasekizajomovuve.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_off00006af4.bin
ba773e9abcd887f7d7bc0815e2f3a593e2dd6c0603b49f236d934f8cfa734bdf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AF4 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d01.bin
a0bcffad464d4e5440ead227dbcbf7ef19f8d8a2826b66218febfdaa4a372121
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D01 9948 bytes