Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a27314cade8c4e98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 20:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f38bdbcb9a881c76d6927a24b198bb3b SHA-1: 1efce841b5b86af0b67ee0ae2eb8302e2d22dff3 SHA-256: a27314cade8c4e989cc4f157ea413428d8e63e0b61898d7601a451376833f5b3
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, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggers the redirector. This indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt through a link farm strategy.

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=angrist+pischke+pdf
    • http://files.johnzwoodworking.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969686/nejetanavew.pdf
    • http://files.leeshawarren.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452838/zepuge.pdf
    • http://renenoj.sunshinedentaldds.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164243/rinajobebow.pdf
    • http://files.obclansing.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680949/435b57fce4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6545/8342/files/making_hard_decisions_with_decision_tools.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8094/0710/files/quincy_air_compressor_parts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5628/2265/files/fundamentals_of_transport_economics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1678/0956/files/latin_suffixes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6246/8503/files/55708410859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9291/7924/files/lonob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7882/6661/files/17249515534.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9866/9220/files/6284241877.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1628/9447/files/sewubemetigesuzenusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8059/8172/files/9718712721.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8181/0595/files/95590512738.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5763/5735/files/41291345303.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_off0000615d.bin
8dc95a153558f62df19134b8b49c05f888f83984dd49dbc216f334100750cae2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x615D 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000731c.bin
f6181904f7a61c01255e39ff70950b4e92078440bb9545f452894ddb0f9866cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x731C 10224 bytes