Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62244572c48cb11c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 11:41:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dd3a2d191b4dd86ed1c8dca8f247a8d1 SHA-1: 24b3fcc77d4262406eedd229563fa4c346c3a6e1 SHA-256: 62244572c48cb11c3ab7b42b8b247c32e7467c566683a159492b3aa7dc0da1d9
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a download for 'Vrml viewer 5.1'. This link, https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=vrml+viewer+5.+1, is hosted on known malicious infrastructure. The document also contains a mass of external PDF links, likely for SEO poisoning, and a visual download button lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=vrml+viewer+5.+1
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0212/6751/files/zbrush_personal_learning_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8584/files/48848009059.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7005/4805/files/68290241727.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4506/8699/files/histrionic_personality_disorder_treatment.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_07bfda3f47ad47bc857ddf167f47618f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ac701_436460efc0ab451ab588108978baa3fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89064d_7c00848b87024bcda38d569c6a5ff127.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b916f4_3bb48c3b3c5f44b88cd7a88fba23c7bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/913720_494b74ac9d1e4c76ae1d7bed447c7a66.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f55bec_01dae6586c4547eca9cfdf67bb10545b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e28f30ce82144481a06ca84e8cbf376e.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_off00006013.bin
78efe0e4e516c1372a5a3204a4bedcd3785242879a2d0757fbc1a7a191fc48e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6013 4768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007056.bin
81a390bb6ffa4a548301f72cbb7c34bc80377e3391cdd820ef6ebc8dbfc05232
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7056 10192 bytes