Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1847d0e8a76609d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 18:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a5d7442e5135675224ef2315744f4ae0 SHA-1: 2b259ed6fc3781a771e36329cd3b7e6795283eb9 SHA-256: 1847d0e8a76609d17a99a536f416d6535e44ac79eb6d38ca60911bae9b7e16d9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to trick users into downloading files, masquerading as search results for free PDF downloads. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=critical+path+buckminster+fuller+pdf+free+download, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files, suggesting a SEO poisoning or link farm attack. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the malicious redirector strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=critical+path+buckminster+fuller+pdf+free+download
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1a1696d41ac94ba9a488f2d11346b43b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_83e238e609754ece8cb303595b7fac41.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b97dd_a5b7955f06004038b52d43def7373750.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ba5fa293ed1a4ec099233b8be7ab6b80.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9726/8128/files/10888535564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4272/6310/files/nice_guidelines_suprapubic_catheters.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5472a_47cb7f594c624ca8a749172b7ad0d5b3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_81b87fe516dd48da9ca8c03f5954dd05.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7500/0730/files/brown_eyed_girl_guitar_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1460/1378/files/77557599176.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5032/6426/files/complicated_cystitis_guidelines.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_off00006e2c.bin
ced6e8a654933fed4eb03b0e616c913fb2f3963728f8071d35e633e725dee195
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E2C 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000810f.bin
b64e81a2174dfd1b9f656b949f82893c500e08e4e45c1bf52f7416b5f85e90bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x810F 10036 bytes