Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45f0c8bd2ae4c9f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.8 KB Created: 2020-08-29 03:31:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 353a1b3a28c70384313a0251184e6e76 SHA-1: c88ccd2489f8c7995748f03a7bfe8c7b836c652b SHA-256: 45f0c8bd2ae4c9f031cceb0d1643b0f797c8aa0d7f909c9f2304c7682f1f3e02
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector (ttraff.com). The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to create a link farm or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm strongly indicate a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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/wix?keyword=evapco+cooling+tower+selection
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a6071401020040e89cf7e0f04e877af2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1ff23bbc46664183b9fc47986676c853.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ffb0913aa46a462cb8449f0b54379c77.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_14d5b98d8a524ed79a238b69e8ec879b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_25543622b9ae4d07bb1ea74336628cf4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0a031d5f108b4b9387e444886ff409b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bbbc9069f4504539a1cd1c700e0e4d66.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7623/1063/files/paxetadakoporifedu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5837/3542/files/73148349051.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9807/1450/files/zavasibolepirazivifizural.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4611/3173/files/chrome_setup_exe_file.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_off0000479b.bin
e8acf68e18a9b4436de45a82c29e9b2a91dccdd005d44097af94d831e0831412
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x479B 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005977.bin
4833ccc3636fc99f6f94040b2f6aff0cf61875b3ef90f98826c99fd820c25c51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5977 9696 bytes