Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5db8c070818d7f7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 03:14:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9d37174425811a5615d088333ec7979d SHA-1: 6732e99a35907a4982d530976039928d41542eee SHA-256: 5db8c070818d7f7e28aebedf7fbc9ca355547180c0cfd52169e91ea468e0dd58
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=best+offline+car+navigation+app+for+android, which likely serves as a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to navigation apps, reinforcing the lure. The presence of multiple external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content.

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=best+offline+car+navigation+app+for+android
    • http://vagurawu.dianedailydose.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071258/e2bb8df.pdf
    • http://sosuku.sweetlyminted.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741593/jipaveripuzimeb_biwataxolu_muzuzuvut_kaxusuwosuxer.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3695/8104/files/pewobuto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2595/4973/files/79485450913.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/395667921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5901/2006/files/basic_synonyms_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2301/5841/files/lagu_senorita_gratis_dan_cepat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2503/8498/files/77279714956.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9030/3381/files/autonomous_polytechnic_colleges_in_maharashtra.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3540/5985/files/design_agency_credentials.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9477/8791/files/biworetu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3305/1814/files/16831279860.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006fdb.bin
10b601a8283c87ff9fadcaed6abbb2dc203d94c36d23331ea7110b963dc701b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FDB 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000826b.bin
e8b9d2fd3637eb3400156d4e9d876418c35712a10f97a0553b1b95419d8e932a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x826B 10252 bytes