Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0e469fa5ab99d80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 01:12:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c54a0a648ab03d34dcc3add618abd55c SHA-1: 4fc2a214b3c473c47b6bd93f57f85cdf0ef94c48 SHA-256: d0e469fa5ab99d80a7e7e59fd907fc4295cd306445596a8277313d23a0c336bd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and contains a large number of embedded external links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=alternative+investment+fund+managers+directive%2528+aifmd+pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body contains obfuscated text and a reference to 'aifmd pdf', suggesting a lure related to financial directives.

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=alternative+investment+fund+managers+directive%2528+aifmd+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98e298_ea4c7c8fd91c4c14a1ad05ec7ab9415a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07e02c_e9ea5b9bb99b4ffa8410c358774fa360.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/61b8bf_b6e90630d30644a2930a87d52393caf0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0682/7428/files/61562541895.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0006/2367/files/59687906271.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ad03d_34f74ed3d9a9449c95dab97f22f000da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_a1728ba4650d422588585550e657ac1f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0e2875_026949fbb11f406fa89a061b658a0fb7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f96b02_d27f7c92a05b445a9cca021c5c9b6a12.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5a1791_e8dcef5396aa4894b686476b446f7742.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f103bb_1ff83835aa8b4d3786c43778bf96c961.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_off0000ca89.bin
e7c98b460a0722f786d209a3b451c354e150755f34cbc87466b3a2b2184e8f13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA89 5604 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd97.bin
c7c6966bc8170320a83851920ffeff833c59dd5902fa8184390aa694a94bcd14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD97 11548 bytes