Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64396db03ee61b36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 22:21:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e396db74b4b6c57ff9315a41bf32f3a0 SHA-1: d328254bbb79fb3f3fc125ddce078f9df1d4d135 SHA-256: 64396db03ee61b36263a3ff7a39477d602685ddd2a745e331f49d79c89df73d8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.cc`. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to malicious content under the guise of providing free PDF downloads. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm further supports a malicious intent.

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.cc/pify?keyword=periodontologia+clinica+carranza+10+edicion+pdf+gratis
    • http://files.erwinandsons.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070911/tuwupaxo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0776/9750/files/50863433830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0394/0762/files/cambridge_primary_english_stage_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1739/5611/files/salanokimumotiwis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7573/7502/files/rezusugumide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8450/5498/files/sawdust_briquettes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0808/9509/files/forma_op7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4048/0164/files/dunob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8181/0595/files/givawijofuxile.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6533/5190/files/sovural.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2976/6039/files/av_malformation_leg_radiology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2406/3392/files/boguw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5238/3907/files/ben_graham_security_analysis.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_off00004a9e.bin
9f847b09dae87b54350eba2ac534e61dc777c0e11adf87306ed067c45111ca46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A9E 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005da0.bin
8fab1507ecf1e2df998241f6014bb2682e47024ddc2f9ae7bf8fe79775f2b37d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DA0 10364 bytes