Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6fb531f6f8bdc7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-07-31 23:16:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 04e73a567b6748c8a314d4e7c4230711 SHA-1: d4be0277cffa71c3b1fae29d32433accd48f886d SHA-256: d6fb531f6f8bdc7dbb3a43b6915a92e3dbe313fbf0b3ea210b3bb340ed247bd5
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'pmbok 2016 pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise malicious intent. The presence of a link farm and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support the malicious classification. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=pmbok+2016+pdf
    • http://files.exact-timing.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696029/728673.pdf
    • http://files.rachelwoodwardhansen.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775387/69673e63.pdf
    • http://files.beitnachum.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483253/ximegigojepirez_rabisosip_suwupisi.pdf
    • http://files.ruthnadiamassage.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740590/1737054.pdf
    • http://files.roykillen.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860204/71269d79130648.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5886/4028/files/41380618258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3119/7856/files/puwafuxebimexateza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4021/1105/files/31340845371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1301/2630/files/atherosclerosis_book_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5286/7494/files/vasafizop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6875/2023/files/nolipaverosorugalafede.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/ganisififado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5476/8021/files/wanibovaraponudesubogux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6310/6968/files/42704223080.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
stream_005_off0000a077.bin
471349a0b46ba3c8394f8364f4295e3b187ba9e406f6023b668fbca0a06fff36
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xA077 17420 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00006a7e.bin
ffc00924815d5c2508b6622cc59ea34e7f6edc051d40674f593df2e6ae43cfbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A7E 4792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ac3.bin
65cc0d7ae25baa6b451e9815f16b3c4a886d8eea41db77624eef0eb3857d6750
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AC3 11116 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000ba6b.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA6B 4324 bytes