Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cce3566b2143c32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 226c3a4e623dbd7c266b366ef4a55501 SHA-1: 120254a41007b2fcc164c02a5cf85be00366e38c SHA-256: 4cce3566b2143c32dd95b00e552320e3e1693592a06adf42895c5be8a8707451
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=ortopedia+y+traumatologia+fernando+silberman+pdf', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be malformed or obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL and the link farm heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent, likely for SEO poisoning or redirecting users to further malicious content.

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=ortopedia+y+traumatologia+fernando+silberman+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/299074_4a7ffe7a99c043f597c2ad6e219e5b0a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2274a7_fd57ec4bfa11462296df56b2d7e06824.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5de1df_bd68af788f924160adbe8d77e2f147c8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ad01e4458ed1442e9f2792d5686f9ff2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/429b25_6aadc2bf69174851abab10489f3f3d0f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7437/1235/files/mobemodajilakafelifalal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7121/7565/files/farberware_air_fryer_toaster_oven_chicken_recipes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6381/3020/files/carbon_nanotubes_book.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76156b_23b59cb6c23f426ea85a8bfab61c7dac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d82431258d294cb28df6f2b71e44f2a7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6338/6016/files/48588019787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1560/files/topaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wojilezufaguxulidumusad.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_off000046bd.bin
f81e7364410ccda6e605cc730e0fd16eeb5455605bbea0b54b36433c9524aea2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46BD 5628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000059d9.bin
d9859bf61ceb52007b67047b1ed278762c81737aca1eaccac15950c5890dcdf2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59D9 10836 bytes