Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c994bb0aa3078aa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 22:54:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1e3d5bf351e6b8f4e427e3731c3cb870 SHA-1: 1ec490c56e83e1bd54195e549ffe673f99358a20 SHA-256: c994bb0aa3078aa6e37a479bffe390f6be06068aa127e9cdca83760bdae37eba
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=libri+in+pdf+da+scaricare+gratis'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for free PDF downloads, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.cc/wix?keyword=libri+in+pdf+da+scaricare+gratis
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cd1ce91826c9476d95f0a45d7b407795.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9d869b_b4da50d0d5d945a09f079a49a643d3e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e2f97d989bce4ff79a7d7a2b7692f33d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0247/8237/files/federexuve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9043/4455/files/ashrae_standard_15.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9898/1030/files/53615264510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9123/7791/files/8956873072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5068/7903/files/the_mongols_in_world_history_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7188/9817/files/nodelokopimufepuvu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3834b_3d1635b83519438586689008b6155999.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bdcfd85f4cf94ac19686e48e7022ee2b.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_off00007298.bin
7eadebf971966d2855923ce46edb69a697f2e21b521a6cf97e846fb18732a9be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7298 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000083ba.bin
15c453979f293ee8d5d147bb954e1529f667c31f085ef2c4b2a86cf530ed1190
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83BA 11064 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a79c.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA79C 4324 bytes