Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6edb07e8902fe7cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-08-26 22:33:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 11b0d65c27d843ecf6a5b1101ae2a864 SHA-1: 97a59c5d01c6f90955185c73f3486fded0786e85 SHA-256: 6edb07e8902fe7ccceb166a2693f22ac46b3ba51369ac6cc6772a405847dd608
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is presented to the user as a search result for a technical book, likely to entice clicks. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.com/pify?keyword=elasticsearch+cookbook+pdf
    • http://files.icupearls.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856949/e2df3d468.pdf
    • http://mulumon.getwirelessnz.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969685/mugisekotasuzeg.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7879/4920/files/blood_type_a_negative_diet_food_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7704/9247/files/blanket_chest_plans.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8570/2054/files/41065565118.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2906/7938/files/64085640542.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0158/5570/files/8358139273.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pewugokujugiwiburonanas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5089/2454/files/gegoxejofaro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4853/4167/files/25170983304.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7259/3832/files/18397000291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7784/3609/files/funza_lushaka_bursary_application_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7296/9109/files/74820253823.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006f0a.bin
1def52eb9676625528d7b508585e4e372402b4a57575b2dba8a367caba544c88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F0A 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008057.bin
e508ebc1b524edc320d356531fa15f7b29b1e626c6b703f62edefcade714ea63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8057 10692 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a4de.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4DE 4324 bytes