Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c2ae04ea8532b1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-09-03 15:04:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e6e25e0aa257e05aaebdeeec2b7a77e8 SHA-1: 023777b053d200cc417c7bcf759624adf81890b6 SHA-256: 3c2ae04ea8532b1e5aa91be4271e00c8a38aff8adec0b512ccca8ee014dec0ff
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags the URL https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=bugle+call+ringtone++free as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a lure to external malicious content. 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.me/wix?keyword=bugle+call+ringtone++free
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5c9621_b8ea31f8bc714ddaa7397562dbcc9028.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dc0290c9949c423c865e12435864e4ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4579c_5e4cb8731a1e46bb81bc8235ec6957ab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de02f3_e0b10f3cab394a75a41a363738c9b267.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/db1da1_33cbaf18deaa44729b1f4bbdc59b348b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2242/9858/files/civ_vi_steam_guides.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2724/9826/files/acland_anatomy_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5800/4117/files/bajaw_kamare_video_song.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73c254_3a7a16e649e9470fb0055292782f1b19.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bc79a4_2871525037a641e4b3076115007f9877.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_130435c65c994bbf816c4a5175fcb2f2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9301/6222/files/84125315686.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1282/2939/files/illegal_characters_in_filenames.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8047/2984/files/rulububamewuzilibamod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7369/0017/files/37303366828.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_off000043db.bin
3bbf7bb62f18780549d94b31567a6b012f51cb3e1e0fe4b57376eee3d73800b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x43DB 4920 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000054b3.bin
4f47f367311954385bc899ef3adab9f84312ee00c986e42422ec6fdfd004429a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54B3 9940 bytes