Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac092cd637777114…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 09:24:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 39ce761d12f8a6b710dd73b31a0874dc SHA-1: 1a7db8bc05e224df10ecabdbd3b2dad8f7db0106 SHA-256: ac092cd637777114dccfc563d7b59c5a9efa5c1c1150c193c2a8049ca16855ed
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as a training manual. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body also contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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/wb?keyword=basic%20life%20support%20training%20manual
    • http://files.mrslorenzscience.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164431/wosiwab.pdf
    • http://files.phoenixhypnobirthing.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379060/jijawori.pdf
    • http://files.crownbid.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453946/rixubifo.pdf
    • http://files.ikigaiartifactsstore.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739379/xekave-wigofefenidelo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8628/8798/files/2003_jeep_grand_cherokee_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3431/1845/files/47705874757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3382/9271/files/36671698759.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3153/5524/files/pradhan_mantri_awas_yojana_surat_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5936/3478/files/calculus_late_transcendentals_10th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2470/1845/files/calculus_textbook_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8670/8890/files/35931242672.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5469/files/34595848261.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2030/3006/files/71438069058.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6309/9040/files/30605537655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0850/6531/files/eras_protocolo.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_off0000422f.bin
ed77457f9731f2a9e3572b90a825f9e540b5cc4e95a970744de2278527db5dab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x422F 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005472.bin
055f94598806ca0651aa66a760c3175b5ceb00d69a4695344db13e6441cfe650
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5472 9564 bytes