Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35ddbbd36f4b4dea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:39:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d5621d64195c185f88b25817f849680e SHA-1: fa34be4238f72c1da6229963db6b52f7cca8a104 SHA-256: 35ddbbd36f4b4dea31cef2e4825e961c4f8030e131834e4502e33bda160f2249
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=celluloid+heroes+sheet+music', which is identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous other links suggests a link farm or a phishing attempt designed to lure users to malicious sites.

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=celluloid+heroes+sheet+music
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c63dba_846a751a1e5144f0a67ece73a1e11a95.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/469aea_86ade294174a4bd1a1daeced6b6fe7f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4ff69_fb211a9d4c6b48428c6983e7b575a950.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1639/6697/files/volume_of_a_cone_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4986/0765/files/zajuvepal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4711/6197/files/android_button_look_like_link.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/2554/1789/files/phoneme_grapheme_mapping_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tipibag.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d75d49960f9c47feb215f5ad939edd75.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3635a1af29d649b2bb88033299c6ccbd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/921909_001e05f1dae8472daca9c94a2a7c946c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4ad506e16d354203ab18ad88794e9d11.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ug

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063d6.bin
cdcab885824d95f051cb70b932d371bc03fa004f8b7aafe3efd56d7d3ba7ccb6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63D6 4876 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007437.bin
1b01189b6073e9ade040bc9a559dfa50ea06f1057d167e37c7ad4b65e1645c03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7437 9896 bytes