Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7438bd301115d53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 22:57:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c15933567461fb736d66d6ec9008dbe4 SHA-1: 03e3f3ebd65da2bce07dd64336531bd07a3a7845 SHA-256: b7438bd301115d538dee586fdb93bc1fdda8a46b61c676f979a159df7de23848
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=the+norton+introduction+to+literature+shorter+12th+edition+pdf+free', is designed to lure users by impersonating a free book download. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the book title and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.cc/wix?keyword=the+norton+introduction+to+literature+shorter+12th+edition+pdf+free
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/26938b_6a823ff7c27344b7975c45abe1800697.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b43b10d13710497bb1d1f064c5cd565d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_665cf2c14ae843bfb5d9ccd3087f63af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f4b99_dc52cc050d874290aeafe50e61286e01.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/868401_79ba28fb2b9c4601879f652606caece1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_245ffa7f2bc344569f12a01034556000.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_95b63f57fc54495db8ce1454c6586e8f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aee12_0c6d7a068d624a46809d7b70382ea6a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87b9a8_3cd773fc45344c488d01519e5947e7c7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1f15bf8ca81d47c7aa6493ce4159c306.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b874d_234adf736bad41f9b86fa2942ea0ffa2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/57c819_aa2c40a7fdf14774b92c08ddc6f71df1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/45e30f_b7494f3d32cd4c359d320a899ad50641.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f46427_886a7221541d4c379e6e61e2f69957b4.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_off00004916.bin
6a9a1938d102e7b513e7f98836e3fa605f2cbf4f63299c542fa35105d941d136
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4916 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ae9.bin
69519a96d83bb58b89acb8a149c9404000ad115c45dfe6d6c88995a698d408d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AE9 9804 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007c91.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C91 4324 bytes