Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f6aa3371be4fdcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-07-26 16:15:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e5b54f4058cf380173ad0e0f25240f97 SHA-1: 0f8652727be5a976f61eb65053614b7e3a88103e SHA-256: 1f6aa3371be4fdcb4a9406833b49e372e0ea4b88297440973e8cd373f0df7238
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=adversity+quotient+book+pdf', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a book PDF. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates a probable attempt to lead the user to a malicious site.

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=adversity+quotient+book+pdf
    • http://files.stlouiscancercare.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452922/355a1.pdf
    • http://files.milinclinic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775974/2785443.pdf
    • http://files.hodgmanrecipes.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163777/kidamej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5025/3979/files/72037540529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8487/3879/files/guladoxomi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5293/3021/files/xeroj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0523/8692/files/rewodatigukalagaxajanaje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8468/5224/files/kutagiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9964/3286/files/31051581227.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5887/8872/files/rosagixevaziwimopatu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/vukol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1241/3851/files/kojuzuvivovewebavaso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2272/0922/files/26339409171.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9822/5320/files/84842068060.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006ee0.bin
56d25ea2561dbb17a13ff5c0a13326e33f8cf92702e18c84a8962fa4d6feff2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EE0 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008080.bin
dd47acacf0ac412eebbff621d53a9dfec4e8b6076e5da8dd0d464dbd5b086129
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8080 10316 bytes