Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 554baf0a240d59aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 08:39:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10e13c18d95a122d6c2509a5ffafac29 SHA-1: 7a268bffe7fb1fbda4b134ef20beb25205d64cb8 SHA-256: 554baf0a240d59aaa81eb43a2498d02940de53cc648aafd12fbed16049bdd772
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=mri+in+practice+4th+edition+test+ban', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to external PDF files, suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or lead users to potentially harmful content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=mri+in+practice+4th+edition+test+ban
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e8506d_e3836b45b69948f2aafed4053980e218.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae059d_666fcce5387f4b738d42a8180e6b1aaa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2b3f46_20e742437792410a875671171e2d816b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3359/9893/files/55798673671.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9763/7535/files/93578482734.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93c935_cdd1eba55d4c416b80163c43d1401de2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9f8e99e0d2064a16a84b997467f63680.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a6e5e9_8349275112894f73b47f36cd05f4c217.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7e0eb0_438ca362e5334af7960e3fed9f741459.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/51c472_47c40420b3214e1e9f8398d0422c802c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f4b99_42d0cf541ef34f089e0340b350f7879d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4ae4db_c46770326e474616b1a4a0e64a344bce.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_off0000580f.bin
d22fd8d71ace963fcc9b6530b83ba5c71e53b74d585f01ff997590454fe015bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x580F 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006975.bin
9caca662e0e335dd68666d8c54faa88e377b30deecd68c1fa5636a7013f4672c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6975 10212 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008c7b.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C7B 4324 bytes