Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68fde90245c735ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 11:05:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d2f34fc425d16bc9a4d8a320f94be73b SHA-1: 93449f6873d805fc92657afbb4fa73db9cfc6a45 SHA-256: 68fde90245c735ad1696baeacb062b269ab723bb9d51644cbb741565a66f4b6e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=dillon+1050+manual', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, indicating an attempt to direct users to malicious infrastructure.

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/wix?keyword=dillon+1050+manual
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9245/8152/files/public_financial_management_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3031/4133/files/xojudesukiromogunova.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8899/3703/files/how_to_allow_discord_to_use_mic.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/1204/6230/files/photoshop_cc_2015_free_filehippo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5286/7477/files/bilekofef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83d902_f4b35b46c06342fba1179a66cd0f2d0d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e3412b6fb3b5451aa6a36a134e74a7df.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/06497e_7b121ebb627a48bbb429678d4112b7eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b11f6d_76d2080bc56d40218622e83c8ce3c0b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a16d_41dc332b4407461491f347bce0e832c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/aff7ca_56f9ffbfa88d4849849be197d1024641.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_off00005b42.bin
b8c4d5c934115fc2cbe5e31bcb30a08297d514172288ae78bcccc459085858ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B42 4876 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006bcd.bin
28ae5108c1e0d9337f01abc092418e151f67b7c12db6112e88fa11d5643fb0e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BCD 10364 bytes