Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c92b1ee2de1bb7ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 09:04:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 182b72c00f5bbb4d8e3007207f2078d5 SHA-1: 776c4d1c28087ab6764d56981281dee734ec2182 SHA-256: c92b1ee2de1bb7ce29c1be73612361e1cedc959701b7cbb547193b73804f7959
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which are SEO-optimized to appear as legitimate document downloads. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=understanding+normal+and+clinical+nutrition+11th+edition+pdf+free+download', redirects to known malicious infrastructure, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. 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.com/wix?keyword=understanding+normal+and+clinical+nutrition+11th+edition+pdf+free+download
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1f7deda28ff6422481ffdd6e65b38894.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_52420dc35d35428d9fabd42195870765.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5844bef1d722463685ebc3e8c95d2e04.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9182/0711/files/56440420198.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7839/3749/files/ielts_speaking_vocabulary_band_8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5850/3584/files/astrology_and_astronomy.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2a820ffac58e45f9ad55be805a49107a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee4a13_e7e16cd40c4149eda8cd22f6cad9864e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9007/4018/files/vufezefivolifo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9213/0458/files/pajufedapada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8957/5588/files/mepagalukibupive.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4650/files/rebubedovezemipawodu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C12 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f5a.bin
5b39e9209f2f5823ace8c91dcdd9d22e48f67d4c3a8bd5da9fa9055417ac3ba4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F5A 2576 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009918.bin
22b6a23d74a1ea8ca21986a8be1f6ab02ef4a375d61fb395435008bf20d0ced4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9918 9920 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000bb36.bin
735e795b4d16529a49140ac7f40a22111760e3f1c48d6bea317f9a0d5f86c05c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB36 16780 bytes