Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fdb43d69413adde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 11:50:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1f91cbceb468e47940e4ba4fa4e94248 SHA-1: 2a8801a0b98e97408ed6030e6dd61a9bfd3f67d6 SHA-256: 7fdb43d69413adde8910a2ddb2174bed93c4ea8f6f7a800a26da5328a9aeb03d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector (ttraff.com). The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing by overwhelming the user with choices, leading them to potentially harmful sites.

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=auberge+de+l%2527+ill+illhaeusern+formule+jeune
    • http://files.gordonlheath.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071035/7684479.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5812/5207/files/charmed_bow_gungeon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4691/0617/files/70034143678.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8450/3453/files/whatever_happened_to_penny_candy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2823/9768/files/97518225092.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/present_perfect_with_just_already_yet_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0617/1048/files/69207492477.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2305/6545/files/risk_in_international_trade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9726/0192/files/69716156637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/d_d_shackled_city_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2127/7096/files/bruice_organic_chemistry_solutions_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9439/2485/files/anabolic_steroids_cycles.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_off000063cc.bin
c3ccb161b4b2f5f6e1b447de73334d7cf30050f40d6c7c59fc922f4cb27c084b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63CC 5560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000768f.bin
a0a0d50d4b578ea07e8d3ef2793608f7c2e01360ca83066bc650d667a253f1c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x768F 12300 bytes