Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2de789425e0ed6ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 21:22:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d6bae1c5320606aedcb30d0a2a84cf4b SHA-1: cc44373f86cc668afa9518db3a7801b55ea7e963 SHA-256: 2de789425e0ed6eff257a18bdd4d2a259ca35142d632327f1793df8d5adf5048
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of these links, https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=essential+grammar+in+use+4th+edition, points to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body itself is largely unreadable binary data, but the presence of the malicious URL is the primary indicator of compromise.

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=essential+grammar+in+use+4th+edition
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_116f9e7c5bb14586972edbc3ed1e0a6a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d775a9_2439c84f24e24ad0883b5351c4513498.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3e75b790cbea4b9398d784f0834df93e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_528f7e531ac84a89b1ce2082d7817ff7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dd4472_b723043637ca4adca026345ad806c299.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8514dae7841447aab233e2aa59fb26d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b431a5b5acab4880b6aea72834d6317d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3c460_a0923e25b5904fc493a139516caf4e6e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4383/1458/files/pigirura.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5425/1670/files/ropereloxiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4475/6901/files/93828903526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3282/7288/files/73138603408.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cac9e4_0d481ab566b241239d88d56c36687c2a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b791972170c8475b940e8e287c149e54.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1f3a9ddee2ac4fa8aebb495f930efb40.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/02beb7_aa5d62729e6041578876101553d1c13d.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_off00004e54.bin
84eb9d7d36fbf6cd5345493247b62988c16877301b552c42cff4a00fb1d44f0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E54 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000601c.bin
9ef36d98fe33462eeef5255cb2da8b36a40856741591e8bd56f8d57ff3ebe9c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x601C 9896 bytes