Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9465cb47f259b26b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 13:25:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 337970b2d3dddbab05ab56d38824e30b SHA-1: 64bb9192ec5e02a06bb7570712b33718d8da162c SHA-256: 9465cb47f259b26b97998e4d3da2be52fcee7d0d22df4dc2637b9cf3bcbbed23
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on static.usrfiles.com, forming a link farm. One of these links redirects to `https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=nccn+guidelines+melanoma+imaging`, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware delivery. 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=nccn+guidelines+melanoma+imaging
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/15ebe2_556f88968bcd496dbeb4df1619744577.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3f88d_b352f148480f4657928b9be0952abb28.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f65518_a88768f7e8e8407a82f5d27cc6175589.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_836129c2b9ef4e7ebe5430cd1340afb1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_74465752283444388758f57b94ea23c3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5486/5320/files/22234811732.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3135/5807/files/13866654198.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b2fbf2502bc746fe86a3c4dec6c5054f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e9e83_8112090330804ff6969a55634c09fe88.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b50c55_1c4139e8b3904ba8b9c51c8a0a3b378e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89363e_2ceabbee309b4d14823680ebe54731be.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5339/7654/files/i_found_amber_run_flute_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0331/3308/files/sony_bravia_android_tv_49.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1052/2277/files/13015839695.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0046/1474/files/jugeb.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_off0000606c.bin
84eac4bc12bccb4150634412504237d0a8d877c0fb14cc4402c61548fdca26df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x606C 5132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071d5.bin
db5a42c25660b92c2aad287910c14953a389e6ed86e9f3a8c5febdff78c2315a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71D5 10608 bytes