Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 842ef8beae061250…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 06:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a4c807597e9e8a9aba0d594e42d2c709 SHA-1: d4d3a8200bdbf9fafb9605a466b950e202de2ae2 SHA-256: 842ef8beae0612501692c65896f961d11ad92b4335980488d69c57cff8007715
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 a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. This indicates a likely attempt to lead users to a malicious site, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=computer+vision+in+matlab+pdf
    • http://files.hawknews.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164488/9474988.pdf
    • http://webibife.iranianmusings.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437462/5d4e21e6.pdf
    • http://files.saint-johns.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969580/17b4b5db4.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1881/1552/files/ssc_chsl_result_2020_tier_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1850/0765/files/siveronoputeregikov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9236/1887/files/vajebusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9226/2560/files/91441909210.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1927/0306/files/54786589250.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3128/8215/files/database_management_system_for_bsc_computer_science.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5035/2296/files/1923169529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3161/7945/files/49059122994.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7094/6456/files/85156813294.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3886/6593/files/22806290457.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6427/9718/files/leaked_snapchat_by_location.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_off000059b9.bin
aa783056c87a8b0526a2171ff4f2e2af22fce0a098e8cafa3b0216f543f8b892
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59B9 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b99.bin
1a4327ce035e7fd40675a441db928b21c6e5b2399f23fb87f75f0773183ec68c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B99 10036 bytes