Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8d0a350a7d5a549…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 15:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 31499534795afb68e7b3ddcd027aacab SHA-1: 06ef7e8718cbb8dc9d778a354310c958bda8947c SHA-256: f8d0a350a7d5a549dd1681f01ca112075d4fa3729470d1c5291a6dc098856dd3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same search query as the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=buku+agama+islam+kelas+12+ktsp+2020+pdf
    • http://files.blackandpetrichor.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872021/d428aa125.pdf
    • http://files.amkorkaratec.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452735/zuxukeneriz.pdf
    • http://files.mjohnson7.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739060/lerisutelizatetel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3301/0074/files/kagakumaje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4565/6488/files/69289651253.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5689/0013/files/xedizotitiwolar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5546/4104/files/jamowiforaxebidevalolul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4383/1458/files/fakur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2606/9157/files/kavomovupekazejijirezawu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8361/1801/files/31970753421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5072/9621/files/64305408551.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/56802730071.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2022/1607/files/98283656969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5249/9098/files/23574593437.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0195/3952/files/aromatic_heterocycles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7975/3121/files/fabitasaw.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_off00006308.bin
c36836ce502f91f2e20260a7c7715e939772a5b9c045ae6ab1ee2eca9a366787
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6308 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000767b.bin
5656ee93cdaf9fee8f3d2d3574a4a3d86003cf8b15f0a43cf192a960f8db1d56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x767B 9896 bytes