Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68c453954fd4dcd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-07-07 12:16:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 87d90968d859f3f5f48a236a30b29ea7 SHA-1: 6ce2ed72558117687947bba1a992b966a41523d6 SHA-256: 68c453954fd4dcd9c69a7a1420d89588ac059b408066cbb0bc73c97cd99149f4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains a lure related to game cheats and embeds a large number of external links, many of which point to SEO-farmed content. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=san%20andreas%20gta%20cheats%20pdf#san+andreas+gta+cheats+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document's structure and content suggest it is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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/wb?keyword=san%20andreas%20gta%20cheats%20pdf#san+andreas+gta+cheats+pdf
    • http://files.artandroulla.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380773/6e51b943ebb202b.pdf
    • http://files.willowwildedges.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856443/xukopiwome-tojazelapiz-kasivezobisu-sunezurawuse.pdf
    • http://files.sherieunfiltered.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815961/a59b4b501cc8.pdf
    • http://files.sydneynewhorizons.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710787/lozaratorepu_tatira.pdf
    • http://files.divorcecoachingandconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874518/bejam-soselovorifat-tekumubobup-powidonuvewadar.pdf
    • http://files.mcmjanitorial.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406356/5b2cce2e6e7ba.pdf
    • http://files.andrewmichaelart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408529/59fa416c9cccb3.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://satatadiwed.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/doxejobu.pdf
    • https://wizuvife.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/34501936103.pdf
    • https://xukojiruxe.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/fuxesug.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_off0000664b.bin
920fba1ebded204c8b52222b2299ff03a17a9245ca97011595d4a718badabbeb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x664B 5116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007797.bin
2d86a05304281ec8683c6e0a39ce4d7b873d8cc3facdbbda5e919881200d36f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7797 15888 bytes