Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b962838b124f46e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:19:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29152fd265fe003b0dfb7d8bf9750b6a SHA-1: b0ad1fc56041177796846f22d339001864a9e514 SHA-256: b962838b124f46e3716dca646a7db148e2546c863664f63698d43595c1bdd1c3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=network+marketing+books+in+hindi+pdf+download', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains similar URLs, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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/wix?keyword=network+marketing+books+in+hindi+pdf+download
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1672/2331/files/gevedefabemusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0364/9954/files/32559815806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1560/2337/files/rilelolamewijevirojenejok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7208/6435/files/pufomomisemuwatikodiruwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2768/4760/files/17843187608.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6887/5157/files/10924357234.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9282/0643/files/828354986.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4916/4693/files/jidovemogagaxaput.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3698/2952/files/78578157127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6219/0499/files/modoxamirumaturafukafew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6269/7894/files/laporan_titrasi_permanganometri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9154/0634/files/blueberries_for_sal_by_robert_mccloskey.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8481/5263/files/smc_pneumatic_cylinder.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_off00006171.bin
280f576f58a5586e96792a3a2707a72a40d8dc44a182589bcd360d7fd35afadc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6171 5720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074d3.bin
452478846d9f897c20bad0c78c575b242de5a480047c787d9f3a35874b5f8ba0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74D3 13896 bytes