Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98b6817680070bae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.9 KB Created: 2020-09-06 18:40:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f7fcbc6187199664e38f703873028fd1 SHA-1: d666f60135800792e0f1ae566dc7ec09f76b4bca SHA-256: 98b6817680070baecee3cfc3a426d3048f00841c4f3abb999f33a1431328a4cd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK pointing to 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=kumano+kodo+self+guided'. Another critical heuristic, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=kumano+kodo+self+guided' and other PDF links, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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.club/wix?keyword=kumano+kodo+self+guided
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5cbe5_f388847540d648ff94b263e29d7f026c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a84ca_2e02cf0163b4402e9dd07076cbf25c32.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/40b9e6_b185936b94414638a64c195274c3c528.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4441/3350/files/gejebunasader.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6694/9799/files/43559798428.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5393/0901/files/murerajibaveloniniwetuxaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6975/5812/files/banshee_complete_season_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5077/9295/files/84858107302.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5466/8705/files/attitudinal_loyalty.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2794/6904/files/4490101909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1209/files/dejavulilenabigig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8914/9608/files/aopa_pilot_magazine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0956/4068/files/degree_works_uga.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_off000096ea.bin
ba0716e4eaf3134ce47febc071df00c76667c21fb5c25fa87306d4dc6c283493
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96EA 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a86d.bin
d236d58cc8b71abe5a332f17c46667dbd07018e7b03cb18b101a22eea7c27907
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA86D 10080 bytes