Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4231a4c3ccd5edd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.1 KB Created: 2020-08-31 11:04:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c983e3a1b5cb618dda31508cb49c4347 SHA-1: fa956f0230b696d22a931454aa7b4ec57ac96499 SHA-256: 4231a4c3ccd5edd75e14ae8b07fe3cc408f8b4c8276e9a23c8d4cf910ca3ccf0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=microcephaly+syndrome+disease'. The document body contains garbled text but includes the same URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates this file is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution effort.

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=microcephaly+syndrome+disease
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8d1b6c8628604553af044b48bdbf271e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6dc7f39e312144e18ce24ed2f66e7f4e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f07a1_5c4fc57a28344acdb0da63091aceffb4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/37428b_892d18a7f2af4221966d784f9d8bce83.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7198c1_9b19123747f74b48b2007393a434e88e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dad6f2194b7041879ed516227cdc8aec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3be3a7_12176619373f400b8721e5d8068ab19e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7fc0f89e2a4b4142b5bfa8121ffeea1a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2985/5393/files/pastest_mrcs_revision_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6504/1311/files/vawumabazabigowijegige.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cd358dfc61e540668b4d35995bce5230.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a0016_2ead17b97bfd40aabd6164c6fa8d7aee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99afdc_b089366bd90349628f5c806abb38a3ee.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_off0000a703.bin
87bccb1740ee3c6cca597c1d80e5dfc6600020c2b25be38bccadd67d80d2f410
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA703 5420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b942.bin
f846db95e35fa83ab8cb94a3c77753b1499c3d6bd10352d692a4cf39c5907e17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB942 11292 bytes