Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6ba06c8285c664d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.9 KB Created: 2020-09-06 11:41:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2f4203068dd042ec60d9d2941289bc1f SHA-1: 418ce773169fe1039d314d8a2cc7203dad8828b6 SHA-256: c6ba06c8285c664d7c48a22255a3b22ea58aabd7efc4695375ceed0149a3ac16
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 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=isc2+cissp+practice+test+pdf'. This URL is embedded within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking it. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to benign content, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for the malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.club/wix?keyword=isc2+cissp+practice+test+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/003b86_88d46a400f354e3ba0375354f6121daf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7041e4_90233a65632542e9ba5bba172a58f507.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7a359d_16a4ca13272f4c85aaf6913ce984a23d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f241d9_c6f04b308d5a4b8686cf2fc6203d1ded.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3164/2780/files/canon_pixma_ip110_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7503/4520/files/coleman_ac_unit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3239/6447/files/weight_loss_exercise_schedule_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1324/9944/files/37929455824.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2f197_c15ff5a743844c96b1be427487e1e0be.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/314c35_2570ed06a61d43b08933e45e0026071c.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_off00006b9e.bin
bad5272348ec88d246bb4838b6dbb065d435733298449118f2c0beb487f011a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B9E 4760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bd3.bin
d1124917c8ac715a614e128fd878f1a63c156a9261f2ffeef9f359ce109127ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BD3 14268 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a8e2.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8E2 4324 bytes