Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77ab995776f75e79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 17:03:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: df5b19a27fdf1b75b7510ef502c7f264 SHA-1: 5605b981f48d297f190921bffaf5aebcd116df95 SHA-256: 77ab995776f75e7984f858f1720c9e804a0291c4a08f3be82e8aa5de70a3b1b7
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, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=rockstar+lyrics+ringtone
    • http://files.parnellclothingco.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776152/87b3e2d68a.pdf
    • http://files.cloggyart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406505/e8c9f3c0.pdf
    • http://files.theomrpa.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969357/f678f1d0.pdf
    • http://motirir.earlychildhoodinstitute.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740113/5b0376140f7f5.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9309/0714/files/wibufimewe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/6164/2144/files/nonconformities_and_corrective_actions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/6317908028.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0826/1276/files/bibliography_sample_project_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0577/1939/files/31524436247.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1240/7967/files/samasemerusupekopove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2974/9145/files/75930676132.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9506/4730/files/wuzijinodapixojetixirelo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/5303/6199/files/7379635511.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5417/8216/files/2145590079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0817/8850/files/why_does_february_have_28_days.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_off00006cd2.bin
4df2fc09d222972ed5702d59bd620a6a9aae9b176c4f751f0f25c9448c389898
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CD2 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e65.bin
dc76d87996d0bdd1b7c1d129cafe547cce9b41b1c5e542a2566591784c14b569
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E65 10024 bytes