Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 809767e28b4e1626…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 11:29:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 432783bc2c92b94af86277f01f84fecf SHA-1: 2a9986c835b84e634cc56a31b5eeb4d635c5d55f SHA-256: 809767e28b4e16266b849160c916faaee5078b846a6d25353c2e8999b33c30b7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files. One of these links redirects to 'ttraff.com', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm suggests an attempt to lead users to malicious content, 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/pify?keyword=cavatina+ukulele+tab+pdf
    • http://zigovas.rush4kids.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383314/9281aa.pdf
    • http://files.completehandymaninparis.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740270/dfc7398b61.pdf
    • http://files.thejonesfarmvt.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740435/4387114.pdf
    • http://files.kristenjoybaker.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636935/bubojufiw.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6989/8913/files/pinigaxasojusagipapuwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51025654711.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6289/4498/files/ginupi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5139/2922/files/26997916593.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/gamazenerovisexa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wojifuxazax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8998/3640/files/m3u8_url_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7988/4186/files/derivatives_markets_mcdonald_3rd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6694/9799/files/75839383469.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1651/0873/files/gheat_engine_6._1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2771/0630/files/biduputubupurafibux.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_off0000656e.bin
bf954144e2d155d4bca1446561051b526b1aa23d4f269482b95a11fd801f2cc5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x656E 4928 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007649.bin
a74a98a0d0d6f3b0c128b994ba3ac4bda2f3d16ada109f77592606270662b747
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7649 11028 bytes