Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c69410492bff4d85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 05:39:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d500d2d564096dc1945639ba53fdb3ae SHA-1: 3530829be768a64afe7dda0c6756b55eaba57313 SHA-256: c69410492bff4d85c74537ebd4ff94fdea22cf1b07144ec82487fec199ccf2c6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'Caterpillar parts manual pdf' and the malicious URL. This suggests a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking the link, which then redirects to malicious infrastructure.

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=caterpillar+parts+manual+pdf
    • http://files.melaninthecity.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606803/2215679.pdf
    • http://files.shopsaltandpeak.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740205/gasosolezox_tigexug_ferojisere.pdf
    • http://files.restedbaby.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871984/7b4655b1e509.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0056/9766/files/jukebowevun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9585/8088/files/75456981372.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6868/5464/files/55333638012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/81159011373.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mefiwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4519/1841/files/59480091171.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7020/1760/files/percentile_to_z_score.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3402/4855/files/pdf_to_mp4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4636/1505/files/wakiruv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5783/1336/files/botaru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0790/9781/files/yamaha_htr-_5540.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7400/1825/files/3449791602.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3138/6529/files/62189189474.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_off00005e85.bin
51073f268b1320c57db106000a27ecface18d5e454fd0f97c59441481af7b655
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E85 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fb8.bin
02616c126a01afc716d402da195a98bca6205f0240201993ff7674ffaf9e3464
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FB8 10204 bytes