Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 530fa68c0d8d7344…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-24 04:19:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dcf77eb17aa2671c3db863536062a668 SHA-1: 12e675ec1c94d2ddc2dcee46b3bdaffb04b85d2c SHA-256: 530fa68c0d8d73441ee1a304fd60dc96857d3911c41842af9b1f613aea7c4ba4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to unknown or potentially malicious domains, indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which is flagged as a redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the phrase 'Funny brain teasers questions with answers' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links.

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=funny+brain+teasers+questions+with+answers
    • http://logavoxu.ucra.us/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383664/gadenozibix.pdf
    • http://revudaxev.georgeflcharlesairport.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775136/388e9.pdf
    • http://mekumid.cyborgmustangs.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637027/8373266.pdf
    • http://sapekos.summersautomotivedetailing.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682787/9646634.pdf
    • http://files.thebossygourmet.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712306/888751.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/7340/7893/files/87105276093.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9121/2950/files/zujuful.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4218/6150/files/free_isa_arborist_certification_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2253/2251/files/cbse_syllabus_for_class_10_maths_2020_18.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5996/0218/files/67065992214.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0018/0375/files/adjetivos_posesivos_frances_ejercicios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6208/4262/files/learning_pencil_drawing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7570/6788/files/mupobuxogagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9481/7435/files/gewigipesigisisizevene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0936/7461/files/48910286252.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_off000082a7.bin
5bddf2d3b444118fc55649b4548a3d256c79c73e1fd9850106491a41a0d9bc0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82A7 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009440.bin
2a08d5f0136ca4526a60f0b4e1a5bd85b6d2d2e9fa8ad2806543cf5cd99d8dde
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9440 10528 bytes