Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f72f36ba3633e40c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 13:32:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f313cae6f40c5551358b18ce0e5031b0 SHA-1: aab246aa6033493a674f4efb0c02cb65966d128c SHA-256: f72f36ba3633e40c4d025468a68ad192263c715b959bf430a4f83473fea3c319
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'flatland full book pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous SEO-optimized PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=flatland+full+book+pdf
    • http://tadar.sethcarper.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069759/71877ad09701d4.pdf
    • http://files.wachurchofchrist.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969358/nosadalamu.pdf
    • http://files.heidielizabethphilipsenmeissner.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856318/2825174.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6318/0454/files/algorithms_in_java_parts_1_4_robert_sedgewick.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4389/8019/files/kebokofutavanagi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1171/8820/files/pijukozewofemarukifo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wetitoditasenubekuxon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6929/3215/files/xuwotokomosegagabobafa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4751/0435/files/balance_sheet_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1595/3817/files/tifovuxomemejujasipu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/55244653511.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5797/1362/files/39513394610.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5158/1591/files/wulabitapomemu.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_off00016b05.bin
d1da28e91f2e96ed77a4c119121f15cca4648dc5e8092dc3830f53bf6bb7fe7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B05 4920 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00017bd3.bin
f69eb651810bc16d9422798a7ef66b7f7bb4054b9b2faabb3c177f40c48a61c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BD3 10088 bytes