Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f62e1ed9ded6ff3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-16 18:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 235792ba9f78dd0fca16a2a8c0ac5c00 SHA-1: 7e9079d213e30da92449c60cbbef5533a8d815fe SHA-256: 9f62e1ed9ded6ff3f9016f09075755b113c45d291f4572b70d37e762d616b0b5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=report+card+geo+news+13+feb+2019', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates a probable phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.com/pify?keyword=report+card+geo+news+13+feb+2019
    • http://files.nakshatrasadvancedcourse.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/25084a68e9e9.pdf
    • http://files.kcmcounseling.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873997/8433922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1607/7991/files/10590557089.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9831/6707/files/58983906469.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4078/5062/files/bsa_baloo_training_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7508/0087/files/shrimad_bhagwat_geeta_marathi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9681/0396/files/95152732414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5778/2690/files/tizosuxipusawuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/3256/4132/files/bvg_plan_abc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5237/8781/files/kesavirujilewirovasipisam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2174/5823/files/4965454253.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9966/9151/files/gotokelalobiwidanimisul.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_off00004661.bin
b4ea2b4ed78e4db17541a0c49e9b86b2f6e100e98b2df273c743954b049b3c19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4661 6176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b89.bin
de11dae1b19ca7518db99416e1c125caf66290870009805bfc59288622a44f34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B89 10032 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007e14.bin
8ebdd38d1d3f97d5628de3f8448bc92ed8a1538f8d6f736c26603113ae0ff900
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E14 16760 bytes