Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65554f77a0134bb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-09-06 08:03:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a7f4bb2e4578938ce90d5e7a14afb418 SHA-1: 395f3ea70fa402792c74d324a1536b7c675c5ca3 SHA-256: 65554f77a0134bb02b2f5e69dfc1a8d00f2cf29cdd39c6c836a6cff71ed09838
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=candidate+assessment+form+meaning', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.me/wix?keyword=candidate+assessment+form+meaning
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cfa91a_525eeffa4eb54635ba30609ef5869d10.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/628a76_78fb9af5e0934fbfb9d39b2a01df6999.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4542d9_88cbb23c57c3480381248fa58189b92f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ac51ce_2819c458fcdb4da8a65c0bca2405e4bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bbd3cf_ce05c3005bc942bcb32a9d86cf20b1a5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1533/1227/files/macroeconomia_michael_parkin_9_edicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1923/8562/files/parimisiboxowe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5341/6601/files/96722703103.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4742/6965/files/27538090930.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6398/3769/files/nfl_concussion_protocol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4008/0025/files/nzta_manawatu_gorge_report.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_off000078da.bin
6792c696e9e001bcfa1c5366cf767830427e09a715b67c2882e0cd6be647adbe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78DA 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008a1b.bin
c10c423678cc2a58a425605a5dc30e4fd00a96568a4b04e5b52c9a97a2cde4e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A1B 14988 bytes