Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bed796911ec2ff05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 10:41:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3661b133c7a0fb6d15c42b601b7f8618 SHA-1: e6b157dbae65156517cf6f332eb1edebb0ae7d6e SHA-256: bed796911ec2ff05ce36cbdca35ac8f5c422d1ebe476b5184909ab959b0e3dc3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'intertherm installation manuals' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm further supports a 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=intertherm+installation+manuals
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4028/4583/files/87844196739.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8011/files/21190126771.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3564/0487/files/lubesupavava.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7397/9043/files/biomes_concept_map_answer_key_biology_corner.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6062/5562/files/astronomical_telescope_project.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6529/4504/files/38133347981.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3525/5203/files/20832568422.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/08fe48_fcc0996cb0844b829213ec8f9f4972d2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d4960a152b724b51b4f3158374e3ba99.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/34e21e_669dc1bb6f814355b3662dd89de9467e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e11ca8e0172f4fe2b578c08cd5c2c96b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97aff7_7a6327d38d5340229046c3065705195b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7184/0161/files/coordinate_system_transformation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7142/9025/files/heading_for_business_letter_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9664/4511/files/nesugef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6241/9863/files/work_life_balance_policies.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_off00004aeb.bin
1942725a342c33287e1072656c70dcaa781030166f735d4a1a59473f5587df59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AEB 4864 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b31.bin
b89975aaed44cebfc17aff11ccd4c473ca27b31b71ed12a22982bc6d3b82521b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B31 8836 bytes