Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1dc234f0ff54105…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 00:53:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3392b80e20cac1796a89af80f7d0ca5e SHA-1: 60b328119deb941c522fe0edebda55db1b8b1039 SHA-256: c1dc234f0ff541055663993a1c4319c73d0976acc3b07b4a321be219c4884812
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, characteristic of a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=how+to+analyze+financial+statements+pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is intended to lure users to malicious 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=how+to+analyze+financial+statements+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f9e2b75fe5cf49abb033ac07ce16b3c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b5f63_4e293103e1514f609c639de4b404b492.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c8cc8_9005def7337441db8bd9df3e56b94952.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8738/1155/files/15437956798.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3769/5906/files/chest_workout_plan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6324/4960/files/bengali_food_festival_menu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6528/6549/files/fiche_mtier_guide_touristique_pole_emploi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0838/5439/files/5989537105.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fa32a6_18a360dcce9d4d0ebca7dfea15e954b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_436d222b5ad2406e8b732ce8670b9841.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_off00006bc4.bin
565c9391c56b3c636e4e887ec6b30b91435703b72bdaae2a58035bdb138e519e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BC4 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d83.bin
d2e114accce90c666a36a747e7d69e468b74db0caf18bc5730213675dbdf0d8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D83 13400 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a853.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA853 4324 bytes