Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7fb03a611eb6d19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-05 06:41:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3232a3c7bfbb57e424fc75ed479e48c8 SHA-1: 7bbdbd4654853f8891255e4e27b7d3da5fbd9b59 SHA-256: f7fb03a611eb6d19b833e3ba91277d48a67a17ca7e96d80170a20e24296c1658
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links. A critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector service, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the primary attack vector appears to be the mass distribution of malicious links.

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=quantitative+ability+test+pdf
    • http://files.planchelsea.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438234/kabababe_dalik.pdf
    • http://files.bethelmbchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070846/zududuwi_ziditavatuge.pdf
    • http://files.thewrightograph.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969831/setim.pdf
    • http://files.firstlightdance.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857983/nopugi.pdf
    • http://files.westsideestates.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437423/c42a09e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4077/6093/files/10225441116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6309/1112/files/57502427439.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1338/1028/files/83965339289.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/14162226595.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6085/3912/files/28003617258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0072/files/bonapasitovulolis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9785/8972/files/velebosavexipapasafugidej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4136/5922/files/mekefinofiza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1141/5974/files/39886325677.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7300/3939/files/jafipamasobovu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58933331969.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_off00005e33.bin
0c84dc714373131164aff475e5e46b7eb1e5e35af2cf6e8b3c0cae4426c6ffa3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E33 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007055.bin
7ac54c6f348bde41cda742b6bfc5dd6998fbc161eb23751ba65d0b1f6212a348
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7055 11068 bytes