Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e7d2c6b9bae79af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-09-16 21:56:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f922af5d544cc6f0ffb9b0e1f3788dd8 SHA-1: 820a5b23d297117768b724bf9741da0c9cf6e0c3 SHA-256: 9e7d2c6b9bae79afb57313406a41384df19a7a6eb9e60e7c2e993d826a0c2237
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with critical heuristics identifying it as a malicious redirector and a link farm. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=keurig+rivo+r500+pods', which likely leads to further malicious content or phishing pages. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the same search keyword and the primary malicious URL, reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous PDF links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious documents.

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.me/wix?keyword=keurig+rivo+r500+pods
    • http://zipejisuk.richmondbulldogs.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438110/d5edfa380.pdf
    • http://files.petalsofme.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384771/bizenepeke.pdf
    • http://files.sagecreekmusic.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775557/nakij.pdf
    • http://bifegofet.fitnessnco.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969192/9492520.pdf
    • http://files.liquidsunshinedesigns.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606644/6427307.pdf
    • http://files.homesteadperennials.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740467/fiduxutodorabex.pdf
    • https://13cffb50-6487-473f-b227-07ba93cfabd1.filesusr.com/ugd/0286dd_4365b4cfc1e64dbebb43509437884e85.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6193/6285/files/retede.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6615/4394/files/bank_exam_syllabus_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9077/5965/files/candlesticks_simplified.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4528/2214/files/pimajolamupokopa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/zoruxi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c73.bin
168919cce9f2dc274760cb7cf982c72bd7fd140bc1c1cadabfd6f55198e5e732
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C73 5180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e3b.bin
0c9822d849b3a31b8c7fd899d2e5760d90bd265ddfdf147edd91abd63158721d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E3B 10720 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000092f1.bin
1a51fac5cecc05d5f0a5d3b698ffe240ccab470cdba6a823ba27c6c2a12c20dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92F1 16060 bytes