Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14bb8807f313bd95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-16 19:20:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: aae84d122fd6c6b8fe963bc109e92c9a SHA-1: 6ae4ef205d9a7fdb23b74f92cf2c5ba788397cb2 SHA-256: 14bb8807f313bd95bcc5d720636aa3f03abaa01118049a3ba606df14cd7b61df
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links and text that mimic a legitimate document about knee pain exercises, but the primary link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). This suggests a phishing or SEO-based malicious content distribution scheme. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external links points to link farming or redirection tactics.

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=patellofemoral+knee+pain+exercises+pdf
    • http://files.lepinkandco.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814166/desuviwisu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7065/1542/files/amiodarone_infusion_protocol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1047/3633/files/54606944698.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4078/5062/files/gajekunaviwowixatejumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1978/6645/files/30326559336.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3750/files/nudur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9897/2066/files/69288777219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8373/3921/files/78896412971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6495/8879/files/47175949597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6663/9014/files/60488186919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2562/8327/files/flyff_blade_equipment_guide.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_off00007a85.bin
8485e7cad76f0bc4940149c7502c15458fafdbe2e0132be146b8b80edd918047
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A85 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c29.bin
a0e97bf8fde4db4049405033b5bfd7326a0a46ec1f2b3664dd0f1e4f1b935f73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C29 10284 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000af57.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF57 4324 bytes