Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8e08adb8ad5a0a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-07-08 11:34:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d114f06bf8e0ae0fa22707c0ad264ab2 SHA-1: e3f7fabd567b10f701ef0cfa64732f428ea83ee1 SHA-256: d8e08adb8ad5a0a718665b51912e3554234e04df9219d878a304729726aeb710
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. One prominent URL, https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=lung%20cancer%20pdf%20free%20download, indicates a lure for free content, likely to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed for malicious redirection.

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/wb?keyword=lung%20cancer%20pdf%20free%20download
    • http://files.haafa.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407823/dapabidawekuvukuvapo.pdf
    • http://files.mhsrunningtribe.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969046/2af9b84d0.pdf
    • http://files.martialhartamas.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814279/6186ec0be38b.pdf
    • http://files.jlwarfield.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683088/nirelepepagevip_zobudokodubedez_mavagigik.pdf
    • http://files.snowypeaksoap.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302973/a7512c13cdce8e.pdf
    • http://files.mrssheltonsclassroomeghs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873830/wilelorovu_razus_tojexipituxazub.pdf
    • http://files.ansomproductions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454850/7100536.pdf
    • http://files.francescaterberg.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437753/misimog_bumabodikun_warebulugetigub_tuvimufe.pdf
    • http://files.whistlingfrogresort.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681002/masaberilanimubaloji.pdf
    • https://vikozapu259838642.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/3498486700.pdf
    • https://nipobaji.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/boribokowanijisafifarujuz.pdf
    • https://nenusanej.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/83416754925.pdf
    • https://tabelafiwed.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/53844239750.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_off000061a6.bin
a34a1fcb629dc3dfbdc2edc5b86f82a126fd91c12629afc8458b3535bc12565e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61A6 4932 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007284.bin
e5e8eaea8ce7f49b1afc43fce5dc513907f81509698bdf4570a0e7662d42c134
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7284 10204 bytes