Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81f9d6df344f0e1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-27 21:26:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 86a76cd66431be29440a6e208e18e3d3 SHA-1: 53944d03a0aefa41669fe08b5a83b5ffdabd209c SHA-256: 81f9d6df344f0e1eca38288129170663e59854ad0e72a4207a3deca63730e600
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. It also exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute multiple malicious PDFs. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded URLs, particularly the one pointing to 'ttraff.com', are the highest priority IOCs.

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=libros+de+ingles+basico+para+leer
    • http://nejodev.shadecreekwatershed.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740480/zagumusebawupudake.pdf
    • http://files.lamodemagazine.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739238/6260092.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1634/7035/files/36897114462.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9846/4661/files/college_application_letter_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3579/4327/files/6999699080.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5369/4626/files/telogiduzijaseputidut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1386/4604/files/33151208169.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3974/2369/files/genetic_algorithm_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9740/7126/files/50938840955.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8381/7375/files/vupuxomomutupabejuzelabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0889/0792/files/ritomaxenuzalesigegufaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3701/5719/files/sotipakopobe.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006914.bin
c300f342f26c5c90c67edefb4075564db76bc54fc3a850b179c84b24d855c08b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6914 5032 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a22.bin
985c4033219ef8db9fb276449ecdba9acf486b3fbf293dba94e241eee285a6df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A22 11240 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009e8e.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E8E 4324 bytes