Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78788d2aa8a1c25b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 13:31:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e30b78abfd53d35928da5b2442a5ea0 SHA-1: 452f2c4ab53486a7555d0b18a97a03e477944367 SHA-256: 78788d2aa8a1c25b38d8a71e8d840f4984b0d5995f0d4343ee7387fc55c637fc
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One prominent link redirects to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ap+calculus+bc+prep+book+pdf', indicating a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is used for malicious redirection and potentially phishing.

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=ap+calculus+bc+prep+book+pdf
    • http://files.cheskasstore.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407042/fodomelir.pdf
    • http://files.travisseaborn.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681492/7957007.pdf
    • http://ramisoxez.fallentreeexhibitions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683014/patix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2064/7576/files/nakatiketomukuza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1179/2286/files/43078416576.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8082/7558/files/laselejapujebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1097/2056/files/76201414615.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0183/8757/files/effective_java_3rd_edition_amazon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0799/1208/files/ariana_grande_christmas_album.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0994/9341/files/90953398049.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1822/1728/files/xeketajipebam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7062/6723/files/carnatic_music_book_in_malayalam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7254/4150/files/acta_constitutiva_de_coca_cola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9964/4314/files/lightroom_5_tutorials.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7471/4790/files/hacking_tricks.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006ed4.bin
ecf9fea2a179c80d1d3b716ad8abb662efa0e46d57168cbfadfaaa36d7003916
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ED4 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008101.bin
84937bc3e807da948bbc3ae4ccf617258bb96eccfc30171d095730fab30f954a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8101 10256 bytes