Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70febb66bda58023…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 23:32:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 254c0ab8dffd60ad89731b0ca76bc2bd SHA-1: 9b9f7dada157b239fc90121eb5b99af8366ed59d SHA-256: 70febb66bda58023a40dae14ae5d843f3731210eb93f0380b489b7f031630f9c
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 potentially malicious redirectors or link farms. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags a link to 'ttraff.com', indicating an attempt to lead the user to harmful content. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this by identifying a mass of external PDF links, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or redirection attack.

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/wb?keyword=cromolyn%20sodium%20davis%20pdf
    • http://muwij.division19students.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738524/7871613.pdf
    • http://files.addictionrecoverymovement.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682171/f1981a041ee1892.pdf
    • http://relage.galacticcustoms.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681579/xukuvunip-bigigasigopo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4474/8950/files/gosubifurerotazelarunogu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5041/7827/files/gilakijifaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1596/8667/files/nagalipinezokulapubuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3341/9166/files/54873369239.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2482/6014/files/56975877142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3755/5868/files/59156669464.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7492/0347/files/36719728267.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7533/8389/files/pelamaredawamapuged.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3963/7155/files/25168741873.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9217/3217/files/xinamunitonufifiwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0328/1571/files/xatimovatol.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_off00005ecf.bin
4386002af84eda97f60d3a26bf681e447326fdffa383c9e18d1e7c8a7c8c5191
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ECF 5252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070a1.bin
339bd8dd414e31ba372e04cad5f579c8895c8aff45243b065a232dfc4197595f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70A1 10288 bytes