Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19354f83e2d933cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 06:58:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d068911ee7d06d26c735984f74879f48 SHA-1: f4fd061975e0508b1543ae7cfa2356324bed05ce SHA-256: 19354f83e2d933cdf9cfb79c1f8c02665827680ab087589b66d5fc189fa2ddc8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a malicious redirector. The primary redirect URL, https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=illinois+constitution+test, is flagged as malicious. While many other links point to benign PDFs, the presence of the malicious redirector and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely for SEO poisoning or traffic manipulation.

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=illinois+constitution+test
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_43be3bc142ca4fbea274bbe945c4e436.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9ff37e4a526f42fd805e670bfd6c74ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a052f_3dac6d8d69ca4b56bfa309874bf26c52.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/50de67_8798f32899b54bacaa02072387bd63b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c0842_245427d8452e4e7f9ea6cbe66357990a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a9dbb04f51b248458d402b03cdef864a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a58955b17278475283872132fe14e640.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b5da7_30ddf0d65143430a965242c57e5bf7dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9cb927_247ef04d3e2940c59ca2b3536425a0e3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3167/3504/files/medelixuzaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2301/5841/files/javafx_spreadsheetview_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0726/2370/files/18339456132.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3331/9831/files/gta_v_best_bunker_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8068/6497/files/bartley_ridge_floor_plan.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_off000065ba.bin
5ca357d9d533e608f1ac0632b83a0e8a8298920c7b99c52a86574ed3557b777e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65BA 4424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074cf.bin
87f6bb78c1e2f98f8c9a27f308bd46247c83fbb09db66c576c7df97bf83995fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74CF 10572 bytes