Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71aaf2dd90148c6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-09-09 18:13:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20a116f636870d6951d7d15bd5bd9684 SHA-1: 77ffb44ee58864939cd1bad7b1205268bb09c216 SHA-256: 71aaf2dd90148c6d27f0059fedd8dd42eba3d684650435da308de339d94168cf
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded links to external PDF files, a pattern indicative of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute content. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector, and the overall structure suggests a malicious workflow. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate malicious intent through link manipulation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.club/pify?keyword=2020+calendar+template+australia+excel
    • http://nawabitez.wa-valve.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/829214.pdf
    • http://files.abideinhiminc.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410952/a4021756015cde.pdf
    • http://files.robynfear.site/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452938/xejapatosogoneba.pdf
    • http://files.schoolpatio.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740415/6232202.pdf
    • http://files.syntheticephemera.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695990/kakabo.pdf
    • http://files.homeprojectmilwaukee.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164419/xutisarusaborot.pdf
    • http://baraga.dptrackandfield.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398521/9313619.pdf
    • http://files.wilkinsoncounselingatlanta.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856852/kupodukowut.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/50de67_b65f5e596faa4d2f9e215eee66a925d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f5a024_9b74c4d3a78b42cd841c58e53b93f144.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_off00006008.bin
11bb57eceacff0cc67bec35065134d93c706b26701320e0bd4340cff402628b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6008 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007283.bin
812875c7365d0b9adc0f55cf36db6f8e7c866820adc8f27841d2f41992985c96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7283 10668 bytes