Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92a0e5782a9f8e94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 06:39:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ca7dae74cdcc6f4ea9d51fd898c5f9d2 SHA-1: c100b450d0cdee7dd55a171bf99a096e49317200 SHA-256: 92a0e5782a9f8e94b6c234d219994dcc06bc470dc91f4d2cf84c9d9e4f990f44
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, masquerading as academic resources, to a redirector hosted on ttraff.com. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=hubbard+obrien+macroeconomics+5th+ed
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5122/7048/files/13676636399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7015/2088/files/dyslipidemia_guidelines_2019_aha.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7946/7170/files/rival.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6986/9975/files/dnd_paladin_build.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8765/1235/files/45423856499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4188/0224/files/vobine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6694/9786/files/92504986267.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_41739e46bade405d8169c1762424a5e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c7dd89e9dab43968eb089672b0031c8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_208b6b9e66bc4a1ba5edfd7a15364afd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ecf87b87e9d6415997fea48b7193cf8d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b64d46ce3954450886785b334430eb50.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_60aaf34d57d44d2e8efb5eab3e0cbb27.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_off00007b0d.bin
b092a67b71edeb2f981b414eaa106abe41b45453281d9fd716b766696952b62c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B0D 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d1f.bin
1daf91f767282eb31854ffb656f60022567525785bf928a41303ee3f8c6dedc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D1F 10768 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b213.bin
d468e2025d029b3a3d7a43ae20aa00cd31cdc7ec2d62797e7da69b222902a676
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB213 17764 bytes