Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f745cf02e6c7c50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 21:08:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f370cbff5e25672cdb958e699c6015df SHA-1: 8b2f45762cd324fd2e776d08c1f826c844ab2ab1 SHA-256: 4f745cf02e6c7c50456e7b3f0decc3f3904ae4f8b700d2f69a26e19bbec553dd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to what appears to be a link farm designed to mimic search results for technical topics. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.cc', which is used to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated.

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/pify?keyword=android+architecture+components+github+example
    • http://files.ballersabroad.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740852/xoluf.pdf
    • http://files.afrocubanforum.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636602/jijotebiw.pdf
    • http://vodudev.waxcustomjewelrystorepittsburgh.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775405/2acdf43d0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8866/7034/files/buffettology_workbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5774/0957/files/renewable_energy_technologies_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9846/2624/files/47854052732.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4854/1079/files/75756405324.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1217/7572/files/8553507073.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7730/4484/files/10382179962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9165/6864/files/63047004652.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_off00005b98.bin
c7fe0ddf2acd8206dbe7aef47c4e2241f623b60c42b2bd9cbc7edae4c63cb7b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B98 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e46.bin
adaa6d5858467a9edf586f221204b5091e8bc2fa1535ef9b057fdfc5468cf64c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E46 10948 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000093a0.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93A0 4324 bytes