Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf5ac164d49cfdd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 16:49:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d57d8b17daf762e5f864ca2eaaec9d8f SHA-1: 4a4d3cc82ea3ed870af6603112378a3d66416f32 SHA-256: cf5ac164d49cfdd113d1c0861fafa8b370964f623743a52af6f8a5c444aba7d5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a known malicious redirector, https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=lotus+notes+8.+5+guide. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware delivery. 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/wix?keyword=lotus+notes+8.+5+guide
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fbccce_de10e518ef1c4dd08fdbe6ed4c002d5a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c0842_373a4739ab4c4ebb936872c90dcfde0b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8ba634_087ff2f190384259b85901e8975dda4d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9371/1265/files/occupational_safety_and_health_standards_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2702/1480/files/19868128342.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2045/7883/files/lijazazevusilasis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9032/2335/files/pdf_ant_colony_optimization_ppt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1555/2672/files/sezozabakatabevelugati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7243/7910/files/all_mathematics_formulas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4865/7311/files/jovufezuvu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4285/5319/files/jejefovufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2192/4514/files/hollywood_adventure_full_movie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7578/8188/files/oblige_in_a_sentence.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0831/9903/files/decimal_number_line.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_off000064a6.bin
97d68036c5d299fee217604538f34e8ff83a4381d242aeb37cdd4fbacea8bcf6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64A6 4948 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000759b.bin
2652003cfe86b678dc64c0629a0ccbbe3ec3bb4aeb75021aa55a0d6760714edd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x759B 9672 bytes