Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce20ce40d84ed2d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 22:41:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f63202a5e3038901f926ed249df5e8d7 SHA-1: 3affef797f97ed72442c13bce7e02e85d99ca071 SHA-256: ce20ce40d84ed2d7ab5e6c8dda96b34a5fb69aa116564e7245b6918853eaf2cb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=load%20balancing%20algorithms%20pdf'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm further supports malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain URLs that are part of this link farm, suggesting a social engineering lure to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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/wb?keyword=load%20balancing%20algorithms%20pdf
    • http://bubugew.mindyjunekelly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/zemulazulafe.pdf
    • http://tuxewotuw.vacationsbycarla.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816202/2766052.pdf
    • http://files.wofcca.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070539/4ef47ada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3128/2335/files/liwetazugojodabiparari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8548/6485/files/79560967961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6182/1092/files/sinijefofivolakuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5961/8716/files/xagawugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9243/5359/files/english_syntax_analysis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6660/3158/files/28459808482.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2836/3939/files/54137733091.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0911/2226/files/82131486578.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jatud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3889/1419/files/ncert_class_11_biology_full_book.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_off0000613a.bin
87a1f3786f95c59e5c11c2f206e8f3918fef6e14d5487241b57a74f8f877a98d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x613A 5652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007442.bin
13863f47869d9d065dd7ec8fafa1cca67075fd867d054d060b2adee61a7c5c3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7442 10012 bytes