Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e331248fff0ff7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 03:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20571c408bb9f7f54093d28e16660269 SHA-1: 4351e1f4631a46ae70a4ca3c4f068f6a116c82da SHA-256: 8e331248fff0ff7b24dc42d401511954ab124bc4dd5af6e42c9a25793bab2190
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a high number of external links, many pointing to what appears to be a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to serve the lure content. The document body itself contains obfuscated text and URLs, including the malicious redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/pify?keyword=manual+astronomie+clasa+12+pdf
    • http://files.ioscaid.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606275/musoj_ragunuzafal_jetelusibubavaj.pdf
    • http://files.endomomstrong.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873728/6715715.pdf
    • http://files.richfeenstra.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696111/vojok_suzizomisa_witilexusupe_nawetede.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8687/1712/files/cancionero_catolico_con_partituras.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4353/6541/files/zonumelizamugadom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3056/1436/files/mabazunusujibo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/bartender_black_book_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9906/2421/files/tikiwosudesev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8702/8641/files/fufunulolidaxutesefajita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7851/5864/files/ravelawenovamivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7596/0985/files/most_common_idioms.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0814/8127/files/46743622893.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0963/7533/files/35558163141.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8982/1845/files/50682456612.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8847/8365/files/xovojezalajozunefeko.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000054ca.bin
d443f8ee322dd8c7355bfab9e2b6c7741f02c29f720e98203fe0c127d3abcd1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54CA 5488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006772.bin
f0c3b4d9376f12367ceaadf3fc7465b87465da5655d9ac81dffd3cc18b4b69e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6772 11168 bytes