Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 834984d5049fb7fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 20:07:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f24351619487519772cc86332d26495a SHA-1: 77bb6bd623f812de12ad7021cf0768a93c67a0ea SHA-256: 834984d5049fb7faab46cd9345edea68e773fc7dcc6498b98f115898c16d6f6c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one pointing to the malicious redirector `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=algebraic+structures+in+discrete+mathematics+pdf`. This URL is flagged as malicious and likely serves as a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to academic PDFs and the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting a social engineering pretext. The ML classifier 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/pify?keyword=algebraic+structures+in+discrete+mathematics+pdf
    • http://files.zuzubeanpress.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776786/9d2bf.pdf
    • http://files.eyretonponyclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969153/7674e0e5b687.pdf
    • http://files.lemeadowspantry.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379290/6305158.pdf
    • http://tojonen.aierossmann.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070476/1885330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1390/6327/files/11681741483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2684/9700/files/nikozinijug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/52876055892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/womosoravitixugefiwil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0065/1158/files/70432392137.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6259/9586/files/86335428633.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5755/9190/files/89480648355.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0736/1703/files/47418702597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3661/3544/files/62147363518.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7045/5965/files/teraka.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007492.bin
61d13037d824cccdfb8e59f5354fa10978396d58423d16b0829ab709dff5e48f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7492 5700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000087c1.bin
e5775026017dcb669c7af6c062684c4323765c3d19aefa67ee2dbc0e65401184
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87C1 14904 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b5a5.bin
fd25210be9eb1f9757a25d943f28e7fcf096fe665e9084197a2ee29d13022539
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5A5 16096 bytes