Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46cf1556aaa80ea6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-09-18 14:40:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f7aec7f0ee9939364c44ad6576600c70 SHA-1: b541a1888162387f1ae6f238cd5aba81b2d0762d SHA-256: 46cf1556aaa80ea6536b9d081be7ed8b1a17bc42551bb159a8e9d9f9d19fc271
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.me, which is designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same question and URL as the malicious link, suggesting a social engineering attempt. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to benign-looking files, indicates a potential link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to obscure the malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

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=where+does+the+setting+of+a+jury+of+her+peers+take+place
    • http://fakiza.veinsnz.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682735/7748884.pdf
    • http://files.elizabethfeltsdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739937/8393975.pdf
    • http://xajix.rebeccahodel.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712139/b9f20cd405b5f1.pdf
    • http://fopixadoj.heartsonnoses.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775795/jawimobewoz.pdf
    • https://3a175071-b711-432c-a271-f4f6a1402ff4.filesusr.com/ugd/ced2dc_8fb09ef8599d458686cdab71a1f69e29.pdf?index=true
    • https://b9f99923-2f5f-4514-ba49-2878125dc6d4.filesusr.com/ugd/fb5067_e3c57e1d51d64509a3b6d5196905cd6f.pdf?index=true
    • https://baa8079d-4fe8-41fe-91b8-6d5ea90c79d3.filesusr.com/ugd/d8966e_0a8f5c7608f84d05bcd16ab50faa390c.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7982/files/3d_shapes_worksheets_for_year_1.pdf
    • https://9f09657e-1df6-46c4-b3ae-2dae7193d7bc.filesusr.com/ugd/89b1bc_d4733157c18b473a929fa6460821685c.pdf?index=true
    • https://b72d5c1d-43ab-4431-ae9d-e84caaeab67d.filesusr.com/ugd/61b8bf_70d85112d960462a81076887eca9926a.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off0000818c.bin
228476b0dd08cb64f0aa6307eff51551be8c1db24791109409d29ceac1d6db15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x818C 5672 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000094f5.bin
09c6a30f3507589896627e2b0f366a415cc921047863437c3b4453f284e577f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94F5 10080 bytes