Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e8d1bc4e41ccef6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-10-19 07:22:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 4b96c030df8f67238f3f58d46f24cff1 SHA-1: 3a4e918625e71da3cc26db8526f80279816aa5a7 SHA-256: 3e8d1bc4e41ccef65c7d9ba0ece62ed3b1e81f9d3f1ac3f9b39923f73050f9c2
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting and redirect to malicious infrastructure. The primary lure appears to be a 'free printable daily planner 2020 pdf', which redirects to the malicious URL https://ttraff.me/123. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attack designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.me/123?keyword=free+printable+daily+planner+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374188/normal_5f8b61033e082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382780/normal_5f8c493e23100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371807/normal_5f8b3b6627bb3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379491/normal_5f8c8ad610916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tibiwurab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695994/zotaze-magit-salinil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xujaxivef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438557/e899ab285e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xojerajap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384359/3373854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dosaremuxabibi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739916/aea3e739d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fodezamu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407453/zobafimibino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380223/normal_5f8ce30d27123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366343/normal_5f872e3fa0e5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367300/normal_5f882ca17022d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366313/normal_5f8c3f53dbc72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372376/normal_5f8b248e0d2cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d0119219-9a5e-41f1-8458-8d7562038066/vamunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8446f909-3443-4164-9385-ee036db59dac/nirowejuwumajogomelabuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1daea6a-e83d-4807-b5f2-19a73fdb42f2/forijaxedodewamakovowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/6390/8763/files/90461837899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8543/8883/files/adversity_quotient_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0493/2275/4207/files/83770460919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0493/4280/8218/files/karakteristik_clostridium_tetani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/7832/9528/files/runibaxurubebezukow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0319/9138/files/dragon_city_mod_apk_unlimited_coins.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000078f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78F0 5328 bytes
SHA-256: ffe3c5ad7680ea15b6a2edb7e3e4894513a91088ff5c2080910f6164beb32357
font_01_sfnt_off00008b1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B1B 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 936215d1ef01aad2ef584e195549c9140d096a0c2b047ebd2f217261d4542e5a