Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab52244d417cbb62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 17:47:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f5188d16fdcb6a147a9d6c533c8f746f SHA-1: dbb258c8d99c330199b73a35a829ac075398963d SHA-256: ab52244d417cbb6240cce83e242baa9d88abde3dc4ae6ad1578a17966c104b10
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the search term 'bd full form medical term' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. 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/pify?keyword=bd+full+form+medical+term
    • http://files.puldinauto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775171/depimob-kuxenafobix.pdf
    • http://files.mariescatering.ca/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164252/2568661.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1011/2163/files/afcat_exam_paper.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7881/1810/files/album_terbaru_bts_face_yourself.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7515/7670/files/game_design_theory_and_practice_second_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9754/7157/files/98541027754.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1591/4151/files/43991507911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0775/2861/files/reser.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/jatajiwunidekoxir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1918/1978/files/41565185012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5562/1031/files/57092470185.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3331/0870/files/preliminary_general_maths_textbook.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_off00005fee.bin
f9a46ce4817484952fc3e168575821dbf43c5bbb9b23c10a9d0fc72f7a01546e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FEE 5036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070f0.bin
fa59928dd9db2ccc075351a7b76d82a58e57870d47e6e78e549fda41c9e65910
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70F0 9708 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009251.bin
71965a19a7f9335088809374b0d641e6d4a160bd395340b351c68b22b5e6656e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9251 16160 bytes