Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aff9deeff7fdfbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2020-07-19 20:58:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 70f30b645c8080b960011d6b3057c8a7 SHA-1: cc58412389b6102837fd2f13271ad5fceb385bbb SHA-256: 7aff9deeff7fdfbdfd60665de7c32b1fb2f59598b0e2955782e9709a8ad42f2b
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are identified as malicious redirectors or part of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The presence of a link to 'ttraff.com' with a keyword suggests a phishing or scam lure, aiming to trick users into believing they are accessing legitimate content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/wb?keyword=cause%20and%20effect%20of%20water%20pollution%20essay%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.danamsd.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695493/24e7ff960e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.flawlessreflectionsautodetailing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437756/4025e4268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alabasterliving.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775372/7445875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.icanisciolti.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695372/panowawuxu-kiwek-wetizawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.imageupphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873997/6439146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.psycholoog-gooi.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738719/suwerulotopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shelleygentry.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969428/rikegopege_punaxugozaz_temivivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hawkfieldpointers.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164418/musijutowapun_vomoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.liquidsunshinedesigns.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606644/6427307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://gozikes.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/74562535358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigimizi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/gupasud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinideteba.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/4155404997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3034/7938/files/sirajumagapifiginazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3944/0543/files/juvubufufomavanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9373/7110/files/dobulezinubixewomewine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1311/9905/files/46166698651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3530/3831/files/ledebowekatebuvofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9073/9361/files/gabidolobikekufinanotig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6487/7471/files/desipimiwusixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/44729255268.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DE 5248 bytes
SHA-256: c9bd2395e6ba51c5407a5f87da36a62c4540893a3f52d8bf67c4ad5b59acef27
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DE 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 78b1b9c6cd13d176feafe5995e884cde9ce4a8e34c9cb451e6c2364035b9dd6a