Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4d1eee81a212b27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-09-03 05:04:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 225dac5aa0759bbacb37c069958afd97 SHA-1: 26a56ac45e97fa7071f6c73a86e1f4adc519f613 SHA-256: c4d1eee81a212b27b6468fb616f8638f17c7e0840eee546f2ae0c32c2c596977
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=general+ledger+templates+for+excel+free', is designed to lure users into clicking it by offering 'general ledger templates for excel free'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, likely to improve search engine ranking and distribute traffic. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.link/wix?keyword=general+ledger+templates+for+excel+free
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c34aa9_32506eaa648d4edcaa81953326a709f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/197ed4_ae8e617fd3394f2a8a38040c6e2a0ef8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bcd086_c1f6608f5b714277bece8e1604d44004.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/516574_2cef6f7901444a67a9a140b7aa945195.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2b09b_dd4d9fb1877443738e75edfdb2291772.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7730/4484/files/shed_designs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2058/3065/files/rimuxip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0933/4696/files/wakatiju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1157/8776/files/kabekibigenodiwiwe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e0cb9_89ac5dea67674e6c910346c0004cad52.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/abd6ea_3f262f2197644c0bb7aa17e75fb94dc6.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_off00005f45.bin
8746253c30a3f54846a8b3786f58f025783459aac2364c0986ce9217eecc1502
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F45 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000714b.bin
441e6620bdac7e66f615fb841c0fe1ff39854b13d008325ee66df24c5f024fc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x714B 10020 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009389.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9389 4324 bytes