Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43fe396a5f0bc733…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 10:50:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d1d804fa00b23ab309af025472abec40 SHA-1: 00d84371d4ed8010bad82117078b6f861e1c4373 SHA-256: 43fe396a5f0bc7339129915c029b2d9f52b6094733f3ef5169b3fb8a78945f02
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to benign Shopify URLs but one critical link to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.cc). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Borghese gallery online guide' and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.cc/pify?keyword=borghese+gallery+online+guide
    • http://files.bridportlionsclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856987/kegasaje.pdf
    • http://files.applianceboard.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406739/wupepizak.pdf
    • http://gabulomib.christopherparizo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437502/rotijarus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5312/9640/files/programe_tv_online_pe_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9725/8136/files/minority_report_movie_review_rotten_tomatoes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4176/7072/files/vehicle_dynamics_basics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4698/1023/files/vafugejola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0540/0472/files/business_strategy_plan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4626/4213/files/sokifosobipuxadudawewituz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jazaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1775/6062/files/delhi_metro_map_2020_pink_line.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5023/8101/files/sanosanetomozufux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/4077026649.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_off000062b7.bin
2b393ccdbe53dd5a63b0b1a592e0a8fbc6d9526dc44010be4cdd144d55523949
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62B7 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007482.bin
ace5204c80cd5d223abfbddf5f30b105299650524584019c855038584d2fa934
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7482 9612 bytes