Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18d20eaad0730262…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 22:07:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ce379df1ea5490d7ff43a791c2df9d05 SHA-1: 5782f9f3bdd23bf1ab7e4ee4ba252d42e7767e3d SHA-256: 18d20eaad073026291ed19e3f5a68583cb97154eaf2d0cb62becc37773ec8ee0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing its malicious intent. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=movimiento+rectilineo+uniforme+retardado+wikipedia
    • http://lavojo.mcarpedi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740178/tibenen.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7822/1973/files/6095217748.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6562/9077/files/sony_vegas_pro_templates_pack_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7783/6702/files/93720977352.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2949/4936/files/a_dozen_a_day_preparatory_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2321/9363/files/53218480599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8161/3987/files/seguros_banorte_informe_medico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8295/7478/files/how_to_use_terminal_on_windows.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5506/2938/files/fugixigofatatagodivogaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4662/files/24187300125.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0558/9157/files/guwisoxujekas.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_off0000554d.bin
ad2f6afd19acf38b7147cc18398614e6c99c54f09806e7f7b8d24f9a647a0e38
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x554D 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006782.bin
a0efce45b484639f15a65ed890518d6bc991ccac62bab0ee28c9cd5457222d6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6782 11504 bytes