Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73652abf5eb71814…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2020-09-09 07:38:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 39358dfc2e0590c4d0ef1b3364152a29 SHA-1: c18b6ac13d4abb6ea3ffa47ab3df761500e52f2b SHA-256: 73652abf5eb71814494b1406dc4a74ab9729c0c584da680ff9793f5df2107c54
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content, likely a phishing page or malware download.

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/wix?keyword=anabolic+running+free+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4614/1093/files/concrete_admixture_seminar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/3371/3829/files/microsoft_office_business_plan_template_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5330/8314/files/leveled_guided_reading_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/59589665163.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5193/4108/files/xadogi.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6846fe_17efa82cbc0d4daeb607e8c036617c6c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bb13a2_03a2b51d19534e649daa36a4f997c8b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f3ecbe_9b6c6cf4f915425bb213997338c15c3b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/003b86_3cc14bd929f14228893ea9332c1e7a93.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cbe7f7_1170ac176132447f9d57799b069d198d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/26481d_9a506194cc9b468395352ba6704476f4.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_off0000fe93.bin
05cd0b6c33a636ffe6e7982f2c0f98e783843db3471425411070b9da02d3346a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE93 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011091.bin
c50aa26b93fbdc293fe6da40a82fe49785986a356001a77211ca78ecef82f4f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11091 10728 bytes