Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74c4a88e309944af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 04:44:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d85943f970c2f8001463921f21b75bfa SHA-1: f47358cda708f87e5d7770e39219114f3a0e029b SHA-256: 74c4a88e309944af7ab5963c004d06a74e3aa96dfdbd296c7fc19123878bd593
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to what appears to be a link farm designed to host other PDFs. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=berlitz+espanol+niveles+1+2+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to these URLs, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=berlitz+espanol+niveles+1+2+pdf
    • http://files.catherinedanielfitness.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682723/begipaluro.pdf
    • http://vefurovu.montealea.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739826/dixutoroz_jaxupumebej_pavis_jefuvipa.pdf
    • http://files.sgtnatefitness.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969405/kiwerawemu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4384/7328/files/fugov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2724/2903/files/bigekuguropitavataka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1419/2284/files/53366716742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5428/4450/files/baruvezivikededaru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9875/7538/files/6094525784.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3417/1813/files/hindi_songs_2015mp3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6264/7191/files/75072115024.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2161/5775/files/maguvamigademab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8334/1728/files/xabawokanepeloreketovu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/70339383958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4896/7061/files/sass_border_radius_mixin.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_off00005925.bin
f01d307afdca39ca6bb7f42a043107be2f5fda81e76f2f673683401290c660ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5925 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b92.bin
b12ba94e3f84202c82d1decb36621e5d930d2ae70b7022b7be5cccebbdaa2dbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B92 10060 bytes