Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f7ddc6885fa9ae4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.1 KB Created: 2020-07-08 19:33:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: 97acfea24ed99fd5249b95209db02fec SHA-1: abb0abc08eaca45f203e3ffd3c4160944d879dba SHA-256: 4f7ddc6885fa9ae4c16660854074ff0e6dbe7700940526dd6afcebd97db83c74
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. The primary link, disguised as a Yamaha PSR 175 instruction manual, redirects to a malicious URL (ttraff.com). This indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning attack designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this document as malicious.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=yamaha%20psr%20175%20instruction%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.harmonizeyourspace.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302913/6922088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cbuhrlaw.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695574/vawoguneriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pvpresby.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407823/gujevizasemul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ueamun.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398250/vifomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rubylakeresort.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606144/dolubutil-tadimo-wiruwefadinik-xavuwozubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theroute92.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873973/zuguxizamuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.juliakitokirtley.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163957/satorenemap-zezutulemu-xunodunor-fixibakalabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.countyparkfriends.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814279/zobisulit_selitiga_sojinotavom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://sediniguto.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/tulibovexirofopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboviris.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/22106568078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duwopizemole.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/3168179563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://risifijog.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/48167371371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migosefej.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/44865321950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pigejonuzona.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/58712248910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/61086590007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/17721531589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/45927795399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66541571973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wexanenivoxepabulolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/44411244229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gofifarigomikidapowokov.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_off00004b30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B30 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 32c7179f0a3bf8f60086325adce98c289d38469b8a4cd449b4d37f9f3f3c7e5a
font_01_sfnt_off00005c8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C8B 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 90210946c3a619e2e94bdc0691f5e16251aa1edba542882426aba90787e5cbf1