Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 796484bbfabf25ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 05:14:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: df15345b652067a8d45e01bc6b9ee584 SHA-1: d68cdbbd49b9bac25565ee6b8524a0afbd03d867 SHA-256: 796484bbfabf25ab9970e04dd426a5d4e7f98471b537cc02472fb8f54b2525c2
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'giancoli fisica pdf' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a harmful site, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.com/wix?keyword=giancoli+fisica+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_00b3841e60a445598df8d3c5c2635e84.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_17edc20b91194e5abf049edc628f62fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a0be487f52944c82adfb2723d1fd4d16.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1e8dad06ab114994a11c46421c81dde1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_669cf7f73d7d47788a173a295d4e4d50.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_11c40feae2794d0dac1f2d1dfb00b9a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6605dc36e26f45c5b6fae976ebdc37d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b1013032ceb64be4bed88212d48d2b18.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c20241a9b4ca4ef0952e996806a937c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d1945de8c2834e48916708e4aeb9e4e6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_acf1f58ff19440b29d742b84ceaad3bc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_67223690712b47959c7584093a5416d9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_548c94c05dee4178b9bbfeab9398e19c.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_off00005e8e.bin
423f13c651c7003182f2febce965735c62d16dd8f85c95c80e187b430dde799e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E8E 5084 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ff3.bin
095a14fdbfa5c13bb4dc8469f32610952c5933a0be1ca61784abb2da4cc1d59d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FF3 9884 bytes