Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc816aa1d3c2c546…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.4 KB Created: 2020-10-28 05:33:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: bae7598f26725eb67e70250ee87f5211 SHA-1: 7b4391e35f89d530e948be1b8ddb22f9ecd6a3b7 SHA-256: bc816aa1d3c2c546813b0ba7c707060a84393543d721d2533f4706833e2a9e4c
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document functions as a phishing lure, presenting a screenshot to entice users into clicking a link. The primary link, 'https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=unc+charlotte+baseball+roster', directs to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document also contains a large number of links to various PDF files hosted on S3 buckets, likely part of an SEO link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 33 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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.link/pify?keyword=unc+charlotte+baseball+roster In PDF document text
    • https://tenimevu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315692/fatavosaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gokaraxonupesi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134468062/terimitupaxat_nozuvivaj_jetin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biwugina.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163984/8883738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuseramomuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871426/tezulemetime_fusikoxot_nojok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378390/normal_5f8e256d51866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387919/normal_5f9582e8db8e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365646/normal_5f97898fca578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387718/normal_5f9101c222294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380079/normal_5f8c388cf2c5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369901/normal_5f8974b46cccd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383806/normal_5f8eb27405ff3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370985/normal_5f8a011a4babc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374175/normal_5f8e3628c5aa4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371790/normal_5f97edcbdd1f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365621/normal_5f8742a12c637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369788/normal_5f8a887d210b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366028/normal_5f941b3b159b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/petikamov/border_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pazovugal/tai_chi_moves_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/henghuili-files2/xelupojipibonujewadirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bagisi/fajeweru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3180e7d0-27c4-4320-a10b-a802456c5bdf/mugixuvukadexilaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35c10e6b-6197-4cf0-90f4-d675cd67f308/venom_lethal_protector.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fbe5f95f-964c-4481-9425-f4dba1b02edc/woxewalapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c7361dc-f501-4f38-a5bb-cae880b3b1a6/20250029086.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_off00004c3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C3C 5016 bytes
SHA-256: b64529990ddbad9c28eafccb3b58419e3bed3caac3ac59e15b30918cc9335cb4
font_01_sfnt_off00005d37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D37 7956 bytes
SHA-256: d0ce1808e2cd1f24e005cb22c093f1a560b3c22bc968e592b1965f85e46c0a2a