Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8497b8c6ff605332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.1 KB Created: 2020-07-18 21:23:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 438721b785abea80efdf27833b2dd1f3 SHA-1: 8c6cc2faefa11dd900eb6e9c43e3f7b62fce2baf SHA-256: 8497b8c6ff6053321ac05a5a165629369c4b0d3d30905a061febe239e5eaf837
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains numerous links designed to appear as legitimate resources, but they lead to a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and heuristics confirm the presence of a link farm and a redirector pointing to 'ttraff.com'. While no scripts were extracted, the document's structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or scam attempt, likely using the document as a lure to drive traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/wb?keyword=information%20and%20communication%20technology%20pdf%20in%20marathi In PDF document text
    • http://files.cbspmitchelstown.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407492/4963013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cammcdonaldphoto.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407233/puramajawesutetedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glenoravet.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683147/gimeseriwijisevuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.venissimo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776110/galejobuwuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eagleglobal.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483955/difop-gokaxekogiraso-panepopasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/lokexatavul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4539/6386/files/titirakiwarukazesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7338/8190/files/95532023960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rativiwowo.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/getuwowufebogusaronir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xasarev.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/69516062113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naxolobixunu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/46844878168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1722/3840/files/20105305661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4907/4336/files/vupexudolizagenebolizewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8066/3705/files/45437289267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4217/7181/files/8124902021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1811/7543/files/22489890926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0113/4754/files/36241221627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3622/1341/files/83150032502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b877.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB877 5312 bytes
SHA-256: d9c834d599d6eaa93a2413ae9210c5db09c8d2a84f1e87547ceea2c9d8b6a5a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA54 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 61f69bdf7cb95790120abae9b7f9076ecbc3fd42b0ea2471104603646d4098d9