Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f423fae440afdec3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-25 22:41:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d9e3e0b51bd87408f19e80fe1484957c SHA-1: a3c4f166db027fcdaae88c15a8a9e650fe3a8cb1 SHA-256: f423fae440afdec31a4b16c8651d0147d2656bc9b2f1d6c4752e63104f52ce4c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and text suggesting a lure related to a 'Memoir 44 campaign book'. The presence of numerous embedded links, many pointing to external resources, further supports the malicious intent of directing users to potentially harmful sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=memoir+44+campaign+book
    • http://files.supremexjoy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874240/fuwapariberejisi.pdf
    • http://files.martin-watzinger.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380625/511037.pdf
    • http://lavadukul.tidytimeservices.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680981/5344373.pdf
    • http://norej.tfhop.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303117/sotutovita_fovufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3509/8264/files/d_day_antony_beevor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0392/7973/files/41410448035.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2756/9576/files/assignment_abroad_times_epaper_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/lidoku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/65322422222.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2468/4955/files/el_aprendizaje_cooperativo_en_el_aula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2724/2906/files/harcourt_6th_grade_math_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4535/5682/files/xadaselajimogur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9477/8791/files/jemememexujo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7502/7619/files/jpsc_assistant_engineer_syllabus.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/6

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000065f8.bin
7188352efb23ae65f5d8c5645a52b2bd6ea886ef1a9151dbb486794fb11de5f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65F8 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007820.bin
415e560b0cebbe02656552c729493afc446f6e9cfae14e6870a4c2b1801baa48
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7820 10180 bytes