Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8e1ede8fc7e23d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 17:34:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c72e47f13eaa40c42f2b126415e7ff3c SHA-1: 62d7f99b4f25ccbac2f5a55e9a5a4986e4100dc0 SHA-256: a8e1ede8fc7e23d1cfe6eb15551b2123588bb01e707a9ee07d848d4f07372746
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains a lure for an 'Arabic dictionary pdf offline' and embeds numerous links. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com', suggesting a phishing or malicious content delivery attempt. Another heuristic flags a large number of external PDF links, characteristic of SEO manipulation or a link farm. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=arabic+dictionary+pdf+offline
    • http://kamawiz.frostwoodinteractive.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871505/7067289.pdf
    • http://files.mrswalz.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/4385250.pdf
    • http://wumudat.drinkcomkom.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/7402367.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6105/9482/files/miwuzejelize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6130/4744/files/romakibojorebegexetimelus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/23622022383.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1969/6290/files/94667042373.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9477/8791/files/karemogupurujoruwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7121/8588/files/87170218954.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zenafepejeviwasi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4130/8319/files/vokovewazover.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2563/6248/files/46283386547.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_off00005237.bin
2a9637dcfcc9a4b7b694b15ab031525e1de721f31de3e541c26d403da10c9a7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5237 5200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063fa.bin
316fd21693e4138f32c543c369f273d7bbf33e6df3ecfc26eef9bfc953381091
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63FA 10648 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000889f.bin
9608700fb51fad2f6fb93badae4cba973159f166acb31ad21299799f6490f54d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x889F 16488 bytes