Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4885d1f224bd5acf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 22:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2026e9a9d0b9c3c0d3034d2d36633019 SHA-1: 38fef7316e903df1eb98f9b14ec349e0de8387c3 SHA-256: 4885d1f224bd5acf522dec1bb3d7d2756e40252897cef48b176fa928ac41e925
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a deceptive link presented as 'Collin county sheriff reports' that redirects to a malicious URL (ttraff.com). This is further supported by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic firing. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the visible lure text and the malicious URL, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt.

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=collin+county+sheriff+reports
    • http://wadaw.rapidballroom.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738894/3951006.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/ropaxukilub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/5890/8584/files/lejemimebilafivifipi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4827/files/rovugaridebiraril.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/8984/9509/files/jamb_biology_syllabus_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9463/8749/files/dustland_fairytale_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6053/5196/files/rome_metro_station_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8099/1388/files/72545807043.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1608/3877/files/beguine_for_band.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4015/1454/files/lajitemewepekoza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3865/3086/files/bettabets_fixtures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5749/4686/files/aggiornamento_android_9_pie_problemi.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_off000061d0.bin
29ddbacaef3a88637da0e23a4f6a53abe85e86d0e1b4b958c8d3350f66e060f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61D0 4900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007280.bin
9137980e5c4401dcb0d9ca06d56a74c814d3ead8c3e9aa84d140061b124d41a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7280 13784 bytes