Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f7912d79c4eff0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:43:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e60fb56c45b10f9810224011f1c6d573 SHA-1: 5e4917f94863da030df60de842b045ac0744ddfe SHA-256: 9f7912d79c4eff0aebd4f4845f394bc9ef8864ecc7abeca4d071af4a799fca5e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=ligamento+de+mackenrodt', which is flagged as malicious. Additionally, the file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content through a compromised infrastructure. 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.com/wix?keyword=ligamento+de+mackenrodt
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/590778_47d863c86c31419e894de3c857f85fc6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4a001_41ff245af1ae41539c3018db2f21d2dd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ea766fa082de4f4b8f9cab86dc92a606.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_54acd1b4359e40bab030e4b644c34145.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/756799_a6c67ff2f5f147d8a54e3304c7a0d330.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f09a9d_317d8c05ad674b38a563622da88b116a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4498/6280/files/algebra_1_regents_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2518/7491/files/chisel_sharpening_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1320/9246/files/11218040595.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/15d534_d06a4e903ef84b78b8eeaa4e712c17d6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_05380624090343b5bca55777ce2fa750.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da91eb6cea424e249b9b5cf871653045.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87d215_aaf0640c24e040e4a79b41f7ae225401.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_off0000cf44.bin
305eac805823e87e9d7957cfcfe6e910d0133c39487bfea4c16e341fe9e8cb7e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF44 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e069.bin
b1d07dec89e2b86cb95d1606df413deca571b28ed45b75c94a1012e2e2b34298
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE069 10504 bytes