Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7541910173190208…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 04:02:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 96e74c8245b7a1cc89ce76b311e19ecb SHA-1: 2c8483097ce42bb3d08446f3fa1e3ca631a870e9 SHA-256: 7541910173190208aee8eec0e484a972189e6a227fd3a61cd3e8527f6e53e2aa
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One of the primary links, https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=alfa+cetoglutarato+deshidrogenasa, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same malicious URL, indicating an attempt to direct users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/wix?keyword=alfa+cetoglutarato+deshidrogenasa
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/3634/4226/files/miller_heiman_blue_sheet_xls.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/2449/0136/files/activated_carbon_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4293/8784/files/72137318273.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e9e83_64ae811d63f24474ba119d09f747fbe4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de3d83_5a9f2c446bbe4099bec4eff346688cb6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5d2cf3_d618491158704618ba5ba8609b941b48.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e60d38d172564e7582d1c6a0d27d4e02.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_424d2e06a9b944198bb36cef0e58beaf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2127aa53c9f34d248654fed367439231.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0480742dd71943639538b7cb4bedafa8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/221f3a_33a2c215c67f4931bf96c1e2575cd06d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ab922d_e280cb3ff5694057888bf7325efaf5fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_71579a2e973a4942a47c4e245a47f217.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_off00006819.bin
79aa21cc64dcde86bd92f3bbd9bd6fd01d27037f715492c229e134204984080a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6819 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079fe.bin
bd0142ea4bdfff3e4f08ec11bed2ef51e349216eff391689d3638e0b6902fd05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79FE 10144 bytes