Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40e48fc94fbe821e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.8 KB Created: 2020-08-18 15:40:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0af606912fa242bcb3e35a93a5e9d968 SHA-1: ce4f406d594bb69868d024d5fc70ef790f45d1a8 SHA-256: 40e48fc94fbe821e665e6bc3dc8ae5d99b134c1427c9eeb6cb72239302007104
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains. One of these links redirects to a known malicious URL (ttraff.com), indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is largely unreadable binary data.

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=sheet+bai+hat+khuc+thuy+du
    • http://files.vintagecycling.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407965/fakezufimipasena.pdf
    • http://files.back2balance4life.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710759/f1e2778174.pdf
    • http://wijemipu.mindfulheartprograms.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738970/5779050.pdf
    • http://files.wonderousworkshopsllc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696558/bewipopaluse_vekunuxewuwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6431/8359/files/tixifusonilevuxeva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1687/1336/files/novitanibaruvepox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2394/9224/files/65890332554.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3422/9401/files/ecological_footprint.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8726/3899/files/fikufedavifinozo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5621/2642/files/algebra_1_book_mcdougal_littell.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4646/8769/files/waste_biorefinery.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/julanefiwozuxam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9330/2178/files/zemati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3728/6815/files/ncic_code_manual_2015.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_off00004405.bin
dfe9cc2a2daaa115337b0300549bc5d499098cf4e955add6cbb6b8d0b462c7e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4405 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005574.bin
b833db2490fcb34dbdbff0b84fceff2d785a670f2dade72febaa8da6bbac2690
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5574 9716 bytes