Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 238a136a6c6786b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 10:56:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: edba2e681e8a59f75705639c62bd7717 SHA-1: 530e5bb48d372a05692bced5c5fc89725b39c249 SHA-256: 238a136a6c6786b28c3660b7ebbcb83cbc5bb689cdec1ed63d5a0b1113f3edb7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=recommendation+letter+template+for+phd+scholarship, which is a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking the link, leading them to malicious content.

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=recommendation+letter+template+for+phd+scholarship
    • http://files.motomutz.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874317/kadaxixivik_vewasegilodafo_lojub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9450/6661/files/ncert_maths_book_class_6_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8250/5628/files/83039219582.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7936/8858/files/86457273883.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2772/5474/files/gagetowuxilulorunad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fiwowosilikaragufes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1823/1709/files/93922043057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1785/4373/files/bsc_zoology_notes_first_year_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8260/4963/files/53511862106.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7637/1110/files/zosiduzilodosof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/74195332560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0601/7186/files/jotupipiwasajubufemorebu.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_off00005aa0.bin
15a451db34192df2a17a3fbf248bdc7a5c7d7ba62e51fb235675989be51b8e48
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AA0 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ccc.bin
8c3a9b84e89fee83dc28c374ac336382c97621cf44e6c04797a64ef9d8dd1892
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CCC 10224 bytes