Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbf7d95b3428501b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 10:01:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c1904ee8ddd1cc266a6800f858808c6 SHA-1: c070859ccf3634b5f026e9ffda6a58295a9777fb SHA-256: bbf7d95b3428501bf27841b644f1e21cf485e34883c4c0e0dc2b21341e51a484
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised with a search query for "Caterpillar engine manual pdf". The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated but contains the same lure text and URLs. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via a deceptive link.

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=caterpillar+engine+manual+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b77b08_f9dbcda1b6d74757be89286d412666c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9c0e9fdcae2349c7a7723f529029c282.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8127dd_76d170529703408fa8e1884a14c90406.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ceeb9_301c07b1e5bc45468acbb2ca59018b7f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9189c0d0b57d498f90bb808ddc05231a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85286147205.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4817/9611/files/43319119670.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58097506778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1402/0505/files/rawagimap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mufuma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1519/1202/files/87594524053.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8597/1110/files/xojetevedukadikudinuwatub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7102/0954/files/25486257186.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74a852_3d343d12fa6142bb95a0d5d77060b3b9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef293696e40146b081cc655ead63f4dd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/544c7e_943bdb8f0d1f41158010e7a8b4a3f9fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d0191_05897f94c2e54313a88226df7e9b2225.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_off00006180.bin
cdad11b2969ea8dcb1f6fc2bf3f298bb7427fc7823af1d08b3d5754028fc1061
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6180 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072b6.bin
cd4f092516a3a30be212461dbf3a2970886ba2b07b0dc4d190c4f6bac230f337
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72B6 10140 bytes