Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ea29e7268afaf9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-21 12:30:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dcc4037063315bb33d40feac703eb9c5 SHA-1: 1641008d44a2407c35d3ed7b86ff77db6a7ee098 SHA-256: 2ea29e7268afaf9bb52ded28e8a215e8addf117539a8fc9ea8218f74de4f2434
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'Volkswagen passat 2016 manual', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of a link farm further indicates an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO abuse.

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=volkswagen+passat+2016+manual
    • http://lezizo.maranathabiblens.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776132/4893919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0625/4504/files/daxulusopa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3955/9573/files/95618511754.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6564/7012/files/fajila.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4337/2699/files/stylesheet_css_l_g.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/2215/9772/files/fundamentals_of_organometallic_catalysis_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7270/7990/files/wemazegukasifuditi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5815/9006/files/8300320516.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0313/9480/files/fabletics_bra_size_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/1772/6120/files/panesotur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0991/6576/files/wiley_cpa_exam_review_2020_auditing_and_attestation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8039/1585/files/woboma.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_off00007596.bin
2bf0d6746dd0b2b303bbdd0a706c5ed9026c144486711a313a7655129784a701
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7596 5644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000088e5.bin
b9181c4cd01046eb8658cf7113ae5e97828bfaa9bbb47e1ad76f29c1941fabcd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88E5 14264 bytes