Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cad40fb3bfce93c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:48:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f3020036af2d89f4440fb706465ca438 SHA-1: 41b7d8ec1a6214dbdf2250df3065453f4fef259a SHA-256: cad40fb3bfce93c3bf9e05a23d6b047cc367b66eb1fb060b08659f592650d347
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely part of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the phrase 'Free vpn for android in china' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to entice users to click on the malicious links. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/pify?keyword=free+vpn+for+android+in+china
    • http://bupob.keyconceptslearning.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/8441574.pdf
    • http://files.stmartindp.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738991/7229639.pdf
    • http://niwowiri.flipflopfantasy.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453329/b70c8453fed8bd.pdf
    • http://bonobaf.viktorcage.shop/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740541/nivasazudato.pdf
    • http://megapa.tcfrcn.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379945/be7f5c9581665e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8352/1445/files/amelie_vals_piano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9236/9823/files/xipegewevevafuve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2348/3548/files/tupagojerof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0784/8096/files/applications_of_machine_learning_in_cyber_security.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3099/2280/files/the_ultimate_javascript_manual_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2685/6610/files/milovigabumalifezixetom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8276/6743/files/komis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0316/6369/files/chicken_farming_business_plan.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_off0000644e.bin
0a670397e17f625c5b9bcd373d0aad0fab4dd23704f81d6988f51d511b05de72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x644E 5048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000757f.bin
587d7ef58b91f027ec8761cb4413a64f90c6aecdd2e1209bc2bb8510a52cc83f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x757F 10292 bytes