Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17d2e291f6a4913b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-09-02 19:17:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4102eb03cfb8b17d2da438e3e1827e3a SHA-1: a1181842bbe32fecc24fc08805279d1270d81d18 SHA-256: 17d2e291f6a4913bbbe2aa5c1a6bde9562b6953f5b78700e3e63d24e516176a9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded URLs, one of which, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=les+bienfaits+du+gingembre+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to direct the user to malicious infrastructure. The presence of numerous other PDF links points to a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious destination.

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/wix?keyword=les+bienfaits+du+gingembre+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ea91e_19e02f9cdd464d8d97fd5f1dacd6fc9e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5360f8_87f5cd8f838a4046a6bfc4a5518c1989.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ed537_79f7606022284f5b912543b22986c178.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bfbc46_267d025ecdbf40a69ab3cc011317c27b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3905be4b457444fa9f0e98a4d2f747d2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6720/9893/files/handbook_of_biodegradable_polymers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9927/3896/files/sejajilisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4161/1159/files/35015172171.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/3488/9627/files/after_effects_template_royalty_free_awards_ceremony.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/carrier_comfort_zone_ii_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4552/8487/files/88772811854.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2021/2635/files/fatelutimadexuvofesotu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5208/1053/files/vumidekugadukex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6574/5314/files/30710195577.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_off0000708d.bin
ea455abe29900051d2f6604433c392dbe319a78e7c4958a3c79d6deacc2473b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x708D 5180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008207.bin
67d8deccec8196abeb58b4c365009f0ce985aa842f34c335be4aa2b3fb92d04d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8207 11636 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a66f.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA66F 4324 bytes