Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d49af98cbc2bd5f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-07-18 20:54:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 46ee66eeb02183bcd63aef7387649cc6 SHA-1: b7419eb2d7ae82144c7602e05ad59b6d812395fb SHA-256: d49af98cbc2bd5f34420bd27b9ff77952662ab78562c391200c68b1b22c0f9fc
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to SEO link farms designed to mimic legitimate download sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure for a 'free download' of a programming PDF, aligning with the malicious redirector and link farm findings. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via deceptive links.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wb?keyword=head%20first%20javascript%20programming%20pdf%20free%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.morterboard.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740637/ziwoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pklblwinners.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636689/2369329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mygrmobilervrepair.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303378/6724207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://sedibim.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/sinuzutovifafaverudekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bugigos.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/dewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matabimini.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/raminasatadisebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tesezumig.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/73734935484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supufomubegu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/50855018234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://womaserimew.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/noloziniwubatoxinodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savuwasewu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/bukavolugonofulikasilope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duvurenakusa.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/21080506597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7302/7749/files/xijexafifodozofuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/6565103434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8697/8984/files/84602540363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2962/4982/files/vazalubusexujulesuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96626323422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9892/3427/files/lonano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9966/1223/files/xedasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3449/9493/files/25830169942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/94204272925.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_off00007679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7679 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 4654916c1d376964c37576e7d7533adcc59942d9acb921df83119dc3381c39b0
font_01_sfnt_off000088fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88FE 10100 bytes
SHA-256: 9a008691aa67fa5366c1a5b5269ef75fd84fc1bc5d43f0b94e9e3e9f9597509c