Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5a8dab0b6523a73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 03:22:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 12afc5048eec93e3df8d859b31175723 SHA-1: e9d79fcdb2e33f19bf537ce01cfb8951aeee5810 SHA-256: c5a8dab0b6523a7322fe4aabe2c18241e6725f284a5cc8d1db931cafe973e7fa
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure referencing 'Reliance industries annual report 2011-12' and embeds numerous external links. One critical heuristic indicates these links point to known malicious redirector infrastructure via 'ttraff.com'. Another heuristic identifies a 'PDF link farm' with many links hosted on Shopify, suggesting SEO poisoning or a similar distribution tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern appears to be redirecting users to malicious sites through a deceptive document.

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=reliance+industries+annual+report+2011-+12
    • http://xerubel.mskeleta.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453284/zodepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4185/7448/files/nepixog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8772/4704/files/naxopi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/7065/5381/files/tipos_de_empresas_segun_su_forma_juridica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6249/3345/files/21106339694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7997/5591/files/britax_boulevard_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9536/7585/files/70567673544.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wugituvunajobi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9018/9215/files/management_information_systems_moving_business_forward_3rd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8760/9497/files/91699154422.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3866/2053/files/13077278228.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_off00005303.bin
eb9b9db5b7c09ffcc06ee4e2626bd9570fe3ed5fdb381b1eca36934415ca2cd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5303 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000658e.bin
32089d40e9bfe2be39df1b0119d672161ce053f9b3377362034ffc8aac9098d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x658E 10064 bytes