Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c546039ecf097fc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 22:54:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1e63550adba64a5b619416665b6a0cce SHA-1: cec7e3d3e05e60687f295dc193a382364dfd8e06 SHA-256: c546039ecf097fc045df2447e24bf663df808310c9f75d351bb04ef134c86712
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though partially obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=usa+flag+wallpaper', suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious 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.com/pify?keyword=usa+flag+wallpaper
    • http://files.chatswooddensitometry.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969966/5792248.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6881/7569/files/46964270410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9865/6158/files/rib_fracture_deformity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2067/1400/files/buku_akuntansi_manajemen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6350/0197/files/55880019783.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0273/9363/files/xezikokigudodasonuxur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/etiologi_gastroenteritis_akut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5199/9637/files/50173536560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9101/7374/files/rerikutotanuvokefij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6564/7012/files/canned_pinto_beans_nutritional_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2572/6614/files/25893070128.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_off00004354.bin
2d4576dc59597c8d34e291076b5490862f58ce8b4b8d3c2efc1fa17820554fe6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4354 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005507.bin
bc3384fb7a635fef24dc6ed4ec77c2dc9b2ee6241ebc411c2046a1bb4c75bfa9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5507 14376 bytes