Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71b037ca49b424ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-09-16 16:53:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 286d666b71ad5b3ddac0d78cce042e57 SHA-1: 95bcd18074228494a770cfa55bf0ecc5d6fbebc2 SHA-256: 71b037ca49b424ae010dac79e39dcc583c8250df3984856119f16c908c523a9f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic indicates the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=raiders+2020+tickets'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Raiders 2020 tickets' and the authoring application, suggesting a lure to entice clicks on the embedded links. The presence of multiple links to disposable hosting domains further supports the assessment of a link farm designed for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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.link/pify?keyword=raiders+2020+tickets
    • http://files.ileanabarnsslavin.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695278/kigeragotefowi_patatepopike.pdf
    • http://files.photoartnm.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969003/67ee7.pdf
    • http://poluvuj.hoffmannlabradors.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/420d479e537.pdf
    • http://noximug.linie-e.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739377/taxarujeza-kuduku-jodipelexofatux.pdf
    • http://files.joyspringseternal.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856232/5623189.pdf
    • http://mofuvu.schellenberg-fineart.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379615/5594815.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://7c00f54b-4667-4c42-94bf-a26781c3d472.filesusr.com/ugd/3cb679_2335b15bb2124717aa17ac44f0f13fd0.pdf?index=true
    • https://55991090-d7e9-4012-80bf-783a3a42c92d.filesusr.com/ugd/10a4aa_d2efb8cfbe9b40d297195eeb77260672.pdf?index=true
    • https://2e555c66-c733-4bda-8595-e34f8dd3db30.filesusr.com/ugd/d43733_d835b02a09dc4030b8f9c82b8828b194.pdf?index=true
    • https://0f314eff-2c5d-4521-9575-04981b257820.filesusr.com/ugd/3c2969_6b5bdccf17914bd8bace71be1609a859.pdf?index=true
    • https://983463f6-32e1-40f7-ba2f-74c94d163f9d.filesusr.com/ugd/296484_7460f512c28d454d8b6452fbe155ffed.pdf?index=true
    • https://d782772a-88ee-44a3-8935-ff773e862675.filesusr.com/ugd/ed8107_9c783dc6737244e5915c2927b2de466f.pdf?index=true
    • https://7b20f7a4-a1b8-49e5-a1f9-c4f77380b353.filesusr.com/ugd/3f80ec_30d534b48ec74507a24c924bf7eb82db.pdf?index=true
    • https://1e03311a-72f7-486f-a174-27e418b01595.filesusr.com/ugd/61b8bf_01e621fb38d04afbb76430d9f32a3b4d.pdf?index=true
    • https://73e66511-3033-452d-ab2e-8d70c9b0eaa1.filesusr.com/ugd/e948c1_96319e4a18cb44c89b4b3f9de0fc0bcb.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off000050a7.bin
2373620248b3fffbf137a9146ba995206bcc6b012d3938b81df834161c48b605
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50A7 5248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006292.bin
deb394afdae3db069c5314cacd2c439f116de7e102e409d308c18594fb337fac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6292 10048 bytes