Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58654189d9f89124…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:33:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec10f0c13a0c972dbe854fec8265aa7a SHA-1: 22ef44a0ec66c7122ce2807daa1214c6a3d652a1 SHA-256: 58654189d9f8912413277ef13fbd450766b14c7512c453d063e046eeaa338f2e
154 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, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious redirects. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=pre+kindergarten+reading+worksheets'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other PDF links, reinforcing the lure to click on external resources. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=pre+kindergarten+reading+worksheets
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8346e753212544c4a081fe7a97d82b1e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/739437_0fca3c5d569a40cc9ea9f3eeea267903.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e8506d_8328a93dd4154d2b959a8fdd35f33150.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0d99c5cff958414d9f97e2035af8e32a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d843a90750ae4650b03735ca80350297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2045/1997/files/sojijazulizuzadokuraga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9045/2387/files/25573457955.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8375/0814/files/78099274120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1500/1496/files/20340451296.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0083/9842/files/taxoluju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8373/3915/files/wusojeboximo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6304/1430/files/64520813287.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9644/6878/files/domagasiridonagep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5136/0164/files/44346010989.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_off00006727.bin
8e1c92e30d49be2e1fb9c602387f2c0b6432c50733f01e12157c600863ba4347
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6727 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078e9.bin
8db95b226c5bbd7b2f876704e2fe0871c480db5b10fe41aa5f926e4b7b3cb7dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78E9 10308 bytes