Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4e3aca2960fc332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 02:42:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0d1e1e7c77ddec13f3d240b2231bd194 SHA-1: e2eada410afd497a5e1e221516b3e9a622c11752 SHA-256: d4e3aca2960fc33244f73e983d2fdba342338904bfb611f578668b9defe9c7ab
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link, identified by the heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, which points to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=essentials+of+biological+anthropology+pdf+free'. This indicates the document is designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, as flagged by PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, further supports a content-scraping or link-farming attack pattern. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=essentials+of+biological+anthropology+pdf+free
    • http://files.professionalbowhunters.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814193/fea2311ee113.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6917/6992/files/zavogeride.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8260/3927/files/guzewasumonufemijuxadiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1356/9690/files/depejilirisopolamabekabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5906/1670/files/70629811143.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5841/1158/files/precalculus_with_limits_3e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9799/5944/files/thanksgiving_math_coloring_worksheets_1st_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9046/0324/files/character_analysis_essay_outline.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0879/4525/files/58674136580.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2960/8101/files/jipexusaxeremolenugo.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004351.bin
b49c22f9e4510d1fecf280d3e50d47c648b85301c32cb78297e02ca8b84e0a4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4351 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000055a8.bin
472271190148855762d0b2cfbc2c42644b8a171bbcbeb776824be3fd8c64d080
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55A8 9768 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007767.bin
e6dbe3ffa0506a386c6ad94fe536a6501358663f455f9190f221b7a6d2eee1eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7767 16448 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00008d45.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D45 4324 bytes