Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c30c0c754b34022e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 02:46:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 132029968bb1f3f2977c62d3697de69f SHA-1: a2fa25922259626d3a6a4d19c67fb7d9a4ccdd49 SHA-256: c30c0c754b34022ef57140ed05fb2acf69087fd725df5d4740c518148adaa18d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to a known malicious redirector. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious destination. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=afinidad+quimica+pdf, which is designed to redirect users to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains the string 'Afinidad quimica pdf' and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure.

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/pify?keyword=afinidad+quimica+pdf
    • http://files.wrhs65.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695586/pamexezisa.pdf
    • http://mumalit.newspapermania.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381612/parofukawale-lifavodasofog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/6030/0698/files/lozonasibededaxatefotop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1036/5339/files/navy_nonresident_training_course.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/lubifigawovumiselizolelaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9833/9496/files/19372566115.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7700/8550/files/hanuman_amritwani_audio.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4274/3207/files/34948753689.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4965/4184/files/17256185130.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8795/3053/files/multivariate_statistical_methods_a_primer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1361/1421/files/jee_main_b_arch_question_paper.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/74847908005.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_off00005e93.bin
d0a3fabc93f0c7e3c6205ce4b98ee23c59f03c6872372e6e7fde24103ed7a7ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E93 4684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e55.bin
9152496ef54e3f30bca5f410568d3acad89b605573dafceac99ac6e710aa9336
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E55 10260 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000916d.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x916D 4324 bytes