Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4d6e5c5c2e9985d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-09-02 03:15:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cd46ddb8974e8d5b73d9f5893375d9b1 SHA-1: 0c2919a2806925af96a8e5287187cb93c9c2636b SHA-256: c4d6e5c5c2e9985d5e81bc003b5c05a0e2b0514857e672ae06e665220aefd3ba
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc). The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text that appears to be a lure for users interested in medical guidelines. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector URL confirms the intent to lead users to harmful content.

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=nice+guidelines+on+thyroid+disease+in+pregnancy
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98e298_2f99ebefde67454aaaa752b14cdb252d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74e905_6f7df13357cb40e2b019bdb2ca7ff537.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defdb4_f9ed80aeac62403f8ca12c7a4a69c52e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/191a6d_3029ac58861546f583499a27fecd4cfb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1c462_ffd8534fb99246aa8be4c1f508a79209.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/362633_909d1b3037f64668a80ed37c46c3f092.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e8506d_1367080a5b5d42fcacc8b7cc70b51b09.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0625/4494/files/95188123142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9029/7507/files/97254897342.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3750/files/91856729503.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5249/1159/files/xukanote.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0143/0695/files/dufofesaxakozavunej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5112/1820/files/central_drakensberg_weather_report.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_off00006231.bin
2bb3156c4c6be6f303670a3ed8fb052ec95d6dfcb1463b420b56884accfefd17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6231 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000749c.bin
3f2ffad997a8b01489cd14ed6080c60b5598559752c10833671e760670574063
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x749C 10284 bytes