Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b6c96689b8690ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-09-01 15:52:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e7df0a7bd9c73a1c9a5ab218cef3e8e0 SHA-1: 87d76fd53ae1fa83608ca08be9d33067b78c88bc SHA-256: 4b6c96689b8690ac9c9f1c4d51a0432d777701484a2b1382e348422b6138f5ab
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=aao+kabhi+haveli+pe+lyrics+video, which is classified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the intended lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector indicates a likely attempt to lead the user to a harmful site.

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/wix?keyword=aao+kabhi+haveli+pe+lyrics+video
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1c9c9cb729df4c818de01045768e1714.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a43ec6_10db223fd5354ef1bfdf5fa1dd613576.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5899d5_bd4cbde6782d4c26a6a413aac77be9d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/88a84f_ab476ed374554f70a057ed9d0aff5534.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3771/2806/files/cable_types.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5589/6990/files/techniques_for_capital_expenditure_analysis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5025/3992/files/doh_health_calendar_2020_philippines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4721/3464/files/xodogixavalulijej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1569/0650/files/bukhari_sharif_bangla_book_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7395/4204/files/koravexodajek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5978/9472/files/72163410863.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e90.bin
bf139a18065b85f72b97473e657fd9f4e980e690a3c8aac0f65b9af7fecc211b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E90 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007150.bin
c020e4c45957eeb1b3d7192bd626185b075c0ed735aaa7fba3200062d7091dbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7150 9968 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000093b4.bin
dabf0ccc451caf4864c9b22ca91318a92e8f625b469dd0561edf59b451c7a792
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93B4 18776 bytes