Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd54d0dcc6286aba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-07-22 07:51:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 8e5f7ceb0dbba67b4a8476466cbe08a9 SHA-1: 7d14846674a64e059473e2ce14c9b962edc04f1e SHA-256: fd54d0dcc6286aba56bf1da5dbef7abd104b7bf361a863cc2c79df5e09106ced
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a link farm, with the primary redirector URL being ttraff.com. This suggests a phishing or malicious redirection attempt, likely to distribute malware or lead users to scam websites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide further context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=ibrahim%20elfiky%20books%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.innovationsbuildingservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438741/3ca2f8128cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.panthercreekptsa.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776536/dd1532fa8a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tuscaloosadancers.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637226/29539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/27588499931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0817/8845/files/rugugovasasadegitijoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/8833338052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3580/4319/files/2311245022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xomuburisuxenogiduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadezono.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/retavumopirigenoxiropovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danuduzag.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/lopugotapolaxaminut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petogol.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/75929950591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dikoxitixi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/zituzilabuzexapagevuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kavojito.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/55966214850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7311/9143/files/medakeniwosixufidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6627/8556/files/16616184650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9477/7760/files/kafimunof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4357/0343/files/767200208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6693/0840/files/45321960144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3006/0955/files/marat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/datofugilasififuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/japoxotoruzub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E3A 5128 bytes
SHA-256: dc83be25f19a2a003a81296d0d009c9e2663dfe29e6a16eb5cf3f69495d8879b
font_01_sfnt_off00006f9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F9F 9532 bytes
SHA-256: a3d2c7c357ab8a3df9996d86a2d8a46881c5b8e0ecc407a9aa1eae0789ee7d93