Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26892b13e9bf3cf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 05:41:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d014e274d28c07100a1549b91f06cfe0 SHA-1: a3df323e616da92569bbd2e3365ccbbe948e0174 SHA-256: 26892b13e9bf3cf2f8f1fd44159d918c1c20e4b5580152b9e041a6abb7112357
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms and redirectors, such as ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for academic content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic confirms the presence of links to known malicious infrastructure.

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/wb?keyword=vtu%20electronics%20and%20communication%20engineering%20syllabus%20pdf
    • http://wavunemi.thetraditionalequestrian.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164132/2649756.pdf
    • http://files.pearlsofwisdomireland.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856134/nilibofapufuv.pdf
    • http://files.delicatetouchhealingarts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437753/lexebetib.pdf
    • http://walur.lucyvcantu.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/wowubiginoma_kutosogaxijot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8962/5250/files/cbs_chicago_morning_news_reporters.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7727/8627/files/74985561437.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2181/1362/files/81425642417.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/duzibuwusupamodugibeboz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2041/1289/files/sogilar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7417/4624/files/mowers_direct_reviews.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8657/7828/files/59981788403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7003/7924/files/kalezanumuxekav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6043/6896/files/64358666030.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9749/6488/files/abc_chemistry_book_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7292/9435/files/59980461823.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_off0000c7c2.bin
d90def1877fcd7959ef1f557c26e016a0695e663f2cf65fe4d13d6226aa40c14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7C2 5684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000db05.bin
7aa5cc458894059ced5c6fad95761dd9c1ed313a54998f2950a353d934481bce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB05 10448 bytes