Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 718a824a335da4e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-28 11:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b3ecacc5f2e4bf8562728541a615e98a SHA-1: fb838709f14027b8db567f46012a5d74056cf55a SHA-256: 718a824a335da4e4e5c952bdacfad86ed34268a11c0edd3eab65653d0268bc54
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 resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure (ttraff.com). Another heuristic flagged the PDF as a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the primary attack vector.

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=fichas+lecturas+comprensivas+1o+prim
    • http://files.colliervilledragonsyouthtrack.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813923/jidopiw.pdf
    • http://files.tehla-jane.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969992/360c04.pdf
    • http://files.dvaughnpershing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409761/512544.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/5959/7732/files/9546743722.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/1692/9700/files/almost_adults_parents_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3292/6616/files/convert_base64_to_c_and_save_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2222/8376/files/38371535741.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3196/9438/files/rabide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9600/7065/files/24486075282.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lagikemirulufuwetore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kurejala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/3143/7983/files/renamobof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7577/1304/files/jakudexir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0124/0985/files/disifisetesilumomave.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_off00005bdc.bin
cb654e94a06feea67e0c23bf59548a1bab9b79fca2b87079f5f55d823ce81b4e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BDC 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d8e.bin
97d1272ff50950a134d2ecda6a00b464a458e5cd06132ecbb8749b976880b6c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D8E 11240 bytes