Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 704b062722fa5fb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-25 21:56:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5ec8de7f412f6c1e2dddc117437cba10 SHA-1: 5451148ea410373ea2f6419cd797f3f685097047 SHA-256: 704b062722fa5fb0713323a0da070a6ae725a99c5955de62b231586f8b049e74
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body also contains the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to trick the user into navigating to a malicious site under the guise of a newspaper download. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=the+guardian+newspaper+pdf+download
    • http://files.stjamesbythepark.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380591/2162937.pdf
    • http://furonojit.annearundelbiz.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775918/nudavubig.pdf
    • http://files.parentsforsocialjustice.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452878/bedop_bekodezakifabiw_buzuwudepod_kaxutaruzokolix.pdf
    • http://files.doggiedoodles.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873826/vanurad.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/jetcoakota_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9243/4334/files/buku_aceh_bersimbah_darah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6751/4788/files/bumupefime.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5612/files/90413769853.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5965/9420/files/mozoraxupivevepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6405/6225/files/95333858819.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8580/7268/files/24101860503.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_off000070d8.bin
5964b9ac0114306ca7f73b9809a77414dfd89522cc9305d7b061b5588e59062c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70D8 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008319.bin
9e8361514fc5d1fba1ac2d8b288e7f1ab6a68c3b4b632cb19b455cde79c4d02b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8319 10404 bytes