Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b7c98bd32ec0d71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-12 19:33:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 03c55cc3d10a0f1091c2d1bb7e22e614 SHA-1: 9e711a611c331dda898e89a78288ca619443e752 SHA-256: 7b7c98bd32ec0d715903137cf543669cd641efb1b6e1823e811e7eafcc12065c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=menarquia%20precoz%20pdf'. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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/wb?keyword=menarquia%20precoz%20pdf
    • http://files.huucsb.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776393/3665222.pdf
    • http://files.krystlewong.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856065/d308ccef2390d.pdf
    • http://files.arenagraphicspw.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453056/36cc0cadc76.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6568/7717/files/alternity_warships.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3957/1611/files/ranged_attacks_in_melee_5e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7767/1843/files/8812312229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9765/7248/files/remove_inactive_facebook_friends.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4462/5822/files/59852543739.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9520/3745/files/44781874859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2957/6352/files/connect_four_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gipal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5857/8086/files/gusovamewokojubof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1683/8558/files/votidefolagibivotomud.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_off00005b7e.bin
61645962edaca26a371c7f56d123c7253e42544b7b6d19e690ce9056c1c744ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B7E 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cff.bin
4648c93398717ed2c0df3c4e3eeb9ab45ca4141e5a5e9eee728c63439d1cbcd7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CFF 10200 bytes