Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 828013b986a5de7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 02:13:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 487e3674bd1e0f5822a30a59d2af0e92 SHA-1: 3f0c47034cb3cb88c951267382c38d8329729fb6 SHA-256: 828013b986a5de7a087a36c6786da3f7cf876c108cf742798f766b374e442dba
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'ttraff.com' which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, includes this URL and other links that appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wix?keyword=download+film+dear+nathan+hello+salm
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_70961a14e05f4d12a2d9443d7faf2da3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e32925c4c4944104ad021826a9565fad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee9d3f_9bc56767ad654881bb121cd42c15fd37.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cec570_abfb303f5e114d7291efedefdf7aa847.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6221/4304/files/the_oxford_handbook_of_the_history_of_analytic_philosophy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6799/8362/files/vukipuruzot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3019/9966/files/rukaxikazuwoma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0628/0355/files/pupurefezemaruposuto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9381/9541/files/sudulemukizumagadazewuno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3880/8991/files/merizevofe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3655/7987/files/wenefofulilemuboduviv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6798/8376/files/acids_bases_and_salts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5359/6310/files/95744605175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1141/5970/files/bufevejogiwakedok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4646/1852/files/yo_millard_fillmore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7650/1148/files/motion_sickness_treatment.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_off00008c97.bin
82459c8b38d723f9bc1551517638df6da1867b514d52d9523342c9d5f17e605b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C97 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009e4c.bin
a1321db899e6653eeb75ab6e88ff42a57b8c6e5a0a90b63c59ec5283129496d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E4C 9696 bytes