Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 488dbf2fbdcf056d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 14:51:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e7858213a8e6444b883a1babe4b9366c SHA-1: 71721964e9623342eb23c7be9d736ef4e6713bd5 SHA-256: 488dbf2fbdcf056db1b2e14a736c81be9c4e0d38c2ad5fa27edf9869b94352f0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=preparation+of+phosphate+buffer+solution+ph+6.8'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and several other URLs that appear to be part of a link farm strategy.

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=preparation+of+phosphate+buffer+solution+ph+6.8
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c1be0cb23a174d1683e04ed27aee4be1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3960b0e47166470a835d2421d50ee26f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e11ca8e0172f4fe2b578c08cd5c2c96b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_df087bd10e5f419e8aa4f439edae7421.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_86fd3b4a1b0e47df8cd87c2ef50731de.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5225/3863/files/aldehydes_and_ketones_laboratory_report.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_81611af586b04fcfa36ba52566eaba96.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5a9734a297ca4871a6edb910b305b522.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_75c628a5be214b1691c4ee4cf0d159f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c24c944a9cb046c1acfeb53a213222cb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3123/0614/files/precalculus_with_limits_5th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/5248/3996/files/airport_vocabulary_exercise.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_off0000569c.bin
6da67bbe287540a97931a4eaf4f442285eeae20dcd0b012a543345957f978027
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x569C 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006944.bin
448b31d25d8ec5eb78ca82e0623ac1254becf653e651f57da9f835404e49c326
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6944 9844 bytes