Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eb664d69c999577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-09-05 23:32:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3751d4075bbe17e6dd4212f6750368c7 SHA-1: 22684a913de1aa5bf17770b7dde1fedabd865b86 SHA-256: 4eb664d69c999577d02f129d15d091656b748f849d179b954d02b4f776e083d2
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=biosurfactants+market+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm further supports a malicious intent, likely to direct users to harmful content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

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=biosurfactants+market+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4e402_aa3b69b5e6eb4306a09ea2e807aa4179.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ea9b6_8288c1c544eb48c494485af7a437d52d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_af8efbe698fa4e498c6bdc545e84aa6e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6976/7831/files/12928712118.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1551/1968/files/43796231554.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9613/7111/files/15688628386.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2508/4065/files/apogee_symphony_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7498/4863/files/79148259622.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4489/5909/files/pokiretesadego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1030/8765/files/application_passport_canada_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/4237/3538/files/babipufuxatojuzifudala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0212/5733/files/yoga_guided_sleep_meditation.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_off00006110.bin
9075adc79b032f458dea5868e49438a1ee97941cd4ac53969ae63d240b9bbdfa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6110 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000734d.bin
75f909a75be75a5102d5650ed2b12da55dab5db7e4d03dde281014df25629c89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x734D 10556 bytes