Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78077321c19af287…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.9 KB Created: 2020-10-03 01:08:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: afe00f91a3cf32d270548365eb62966b SHA-1: cbeb7d315ec22ee557e9bcea34f18a77b03895da SHA-256: 78077321c19af2879aa28b3b718b3746eecffaa5733948cd4d97d5042d1097a6
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links to external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=meaning+of+marriage+study+guide', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.link/pify?keyword=meaning+of+marriage+study+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.engsamarbete.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695278/bevorati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.andrewbishopmd.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163738/9622605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miled.rongoodine.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070356/mamumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.orchardstreetmusic.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682530/juximazixuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suleki.millard-and-kleinsteuber-histories.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/1620254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.metalwitchh.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406202/a70b4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vepunuz.grandpadachshund.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740412/mikekijimud_bureze_wupoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mepufilo.ogdenmarketing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775505/1089948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037044.mozfiles.com/files/1037044/25816108192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038357.mozfiles.com/files/1038357/31209597146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040329.mozfiles.com/files/1040329/bifotilijamenubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036691.mozfiles.com/files/1036691/21086410140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3981/7890/files/99753555303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8852/7014/files/73418075493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5322/5886/files/24873498455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1171/8820/files/titanic_watch_online_fmovies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0500/1153/7558/files/patagonia_powder_bowl_jacket_insulated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000086c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86C1 5184 bytes
SHA-256: b44019f268796003cba7b727e665a1ab24ff6f41b40f34f1e74604351550862d
font_01_sfnt_off00009854.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9854 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 91107647e74c178be6e4e8353a879a162717e4af2fede7332ebe0c944360b4d1
font_02_sfnt_off0000bbf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBF7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34