Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd2bb863923eabf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 04:04:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e8662bb8c3944f296e55b220279c1b40 SHA-1: 70f702c387a487ebd8df08a4c677e73d0ab4871c SHA-256: bd2bb863923eabf2ed4b3877617da64a8a5e9c91708a51e2872aeede2664ca75
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of the malicious redirector link suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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/pify?keyword=b+tech+civil+engineering+syllabus+2020+pdf
    • http://tabutumol.thejourneyseries.ca/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710621/rifepoxiveki.pdf
    • http://files.pharmaciecocagne.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406800/631e17c148940.pdf
    • http://guligizo.nicolettedaskalakis.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/jidawevinurix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8866/7033/files/tikudoxekevenuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19227598733.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6718/7108/files/php_call_javascript_function.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7170/9079/files/81082028410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8709/4177/files/vimure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1466/7936/files/gimp_save_as_jpeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2576/7320/files/89617013162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3524/5216/files/algebraic_expression_worksheet_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9301/7247/files/wopiterapujitenurezaduze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8697/6926/files/89108784016.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_off0000640a.bin
a3bb7964da0e293df827022bf7ee8b3b1cef90dbdff106753014795859f11a74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x640A 5812 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077cd.bin
309f06e1669641635eb97f1105b5a4a7bc78fb809dae5f185c0065e1f1ff6bdc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77CD 10436 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009b84.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B84 4324 bytes