Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c79203837d84cf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-09-18 04:15:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f105cde21adafadccf58d1a161c1d151 SHA-1: ec941faa7c06ce8ca60d3539e0aec7012c9ada5d SHA-256: 9c79203837d84cf7812598cae3d105a4a3cf89bc55df572cb2bead215621fcda
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=how+leopard+got+his+spots+pdf', which is flagged as malicious. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to artificially inflate search engine results or distribute further malicious content, aligning with common SEO poisoning tactics.

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=how+leopard+got+his+spots+pdf
    • https://e5ed7a3e-52fb-43d2-af9c-9d882506ff60.filesusr.com/ugd/ce14f3_871d3d5b326041848646770e0c0c4233.pdf?index=true
    • https://b21772ad-8cbf-42af-8e9e-1b484da974e4.filesusr.com/ugd/dcf311_17f7cb551b5e4adb886dde846d4e3c86.pdf?index=true
    • https://97340843-d9f3-4fa6-9e5e-f7d5df79137a.filesusr.com/ugd/0bcf16_242e29c7c72449468313fafad5fceb16.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3890/4218/files/political_patronage_in_the_philippines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/woril.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1755/0499/files/codycross_answers_group_299_puzzle_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9788/2773/files/91064545109.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0480/4693/2132/files/richardson_ice_cream_wholesale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4902/5690/files/28805020202.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6472/1562/files/39479966416.pdf
    • https://0f959f0c-3f24-423a-a216-bd576ac22ba8.filesusr.com/ugd/48bf55_79855a77fdf04a4eb6494db1394cdaf3.pdf?index=true
    • https://df8a8fcd-04e2-4092-b42b-c664ada9f80a.filesusr.com/ugd/f2ef67_52b4ed0877c5427cae3c5ad2e374b3cc.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off00006644.bin
17e25a0003042f40870b3562e324f03216e34aaa2fefc097e21ac2b830c80793
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6644 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007885.bin
7c8db3f16493fca617a2d1ec4e95b319804c15f53c00e0032613888e79784642
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7885 10132 bytes