Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d9f9dbfab1156a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 21:41:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a2fe8bfbd69b6c3d145fc3eb91d99540 SHA-1: b84752ddf193e5c6f8a2621c4644370f0f825781 SHA-256: 7d9f9dbfab1156a14b31348272495e287a7eab476f550424e18cde581a61f7fc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document also hosts a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to increase visibility. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the overall structure points to a phishing or redirection attempt.

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=oncology+drugs+pdf
    • http://files.cycleecosse.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607075/1812072.pdf
    • http://files.henrymaynardhistory.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857114/9935156.pdf
    • http://files.yourcaringcommunity.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382239/7f98349f55576.pdf
    • http://files.pvpto.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164308/fofebozaki.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9534/files/16864954660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/8011835234.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0081/2952/files/weight_lifting_for_distance_runners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lonuxifipepi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/49605194079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13977314479.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9432/6949/files/julerugokunedate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/41841620016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5170/3706/files/tupegobimaguvef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9105/9097/files/84824289412.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7208/6423/files/pefagefitetuvuxuvigafa.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
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4a68b1e1bfb1a7381873b1d1e145b4eafaf1497d775cd2c695b2e7f4a65f6aa7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78B5 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008aa4.bin
a7dab8585f69f6a94f6fbd0a3f31f9181f678728ac9ff99be32f62e32adb26ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AA4 9936 bytes