Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b54be8add424717e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-07-13 04:58:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: 91311e0bad8786a39b2bb56437f03472 SHA-1: 78b757a004122c4fe70acacc36bd1c1024bb09bf SHA-256: b54be8add424717ee1e098c9c5467f7de0bd34dd1577710d624adb3e6c1008f7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. One critical heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to academic papers, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=jurnal%20radikalisme%20mahasiswa%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.azzurrawebart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453284/05f0b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gathering-of-light.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407734/1981766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.techinfinityconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164350/xibuxefojaletuwiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ypsummitvt.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739340/deae037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://forakij.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/jukugepodedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakazikosab.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/zatavujomatusuxilelutow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koxezapujuf.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/jazarewilejezetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ribulefimor.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/nojejufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivuwisi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/45770586793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murivavuj.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/92053919077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faxuroxelato.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/nufinikitawamatawirotate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savosara296555637.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/lejifelewefatub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bafotux.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/sowisagavumixosibatuzilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3391/1705/files/8646398048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5199/9637/files/34736905719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37394074323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0436/2906/files/talugenunojigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/24413790208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rirolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/70838758317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1395/6006/files/fepavaxemoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lujodegiduwidixerilaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7141 5120 bytes
SHA-256: e16e6e5200104386a6eea32f6abb639276ed29c30d21dd7b4becc2c829d69be1
font_01_sfnt_off0000827a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x827A 10164 bytes
SHA-256: d9da5d0da5980a64a54bafc7067357015222e230bbfaa253dbd26e148002188c