Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7354b5b5a9bae846…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 22:51:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fcb996e0252fda597b8bf327bbc341a7 SHA-1: 5233f0e764ca2e45091d7565a018ed1563fcfa31 SHA-256: 7354b5b5a9bae846d7ff9dac859aa52c90fe43f4e90603cde630156311fb5ecc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as lyrics. It also hosts a large number of other PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or redirection attempt.

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=pink+floyd+breathe+lyrics+pdf
    • http://files.ztodorova.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382032/07a08.pdf
    • http://files.adrianahammond.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856949/7466497.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5359/6310/files/vokapodepapofax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8628/0872/files/ranosufoxiwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8940/2779/files/lasegigonororiwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6012/5080/files/milijevo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4964/7254/files/pdf_giant_download_magazines_for_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0243/7527/files/24980866706.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7208/6435/files/wezibonizazarujikarujig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7717/files/54815100431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0933/5715/files/88229774787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4396/3548/files/57862843012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lapifobojupe.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_off00007170.bin
9e11bca9038851007d2b3fb224ee3c8ef5b981323442ecdd7737ba5819aeded4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7170 5552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008447.bin
f4d5cdcbcfe4af139120cd56b2bd6df2c5666bc6c0a5e4c8290b6222bd896fc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8447 10300 bytes