Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2448bb238c0e63d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-09-02 05:33:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: da0ca51d8b3e38ab511489dd1e8b4624 SHA-1: d28efce354331cb0ea6b52aecf2ef177861d3a56 SHA-256: d2448bb238c0e63d2312ee993d9ed389fd84f23bb3811458402d25fefe513249
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com). This is indicative of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination and potentially distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.com/pify?keyword=terraform+aws+provider+assume+role+example
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a409acdc255f47debc86f2cbc47a36cb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/37428b_f94c8d123e4c4884bf6daa4ac00ee017.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7746f27624a447689928a2356cdaa579.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d9d1f5_7dfd6a6ab6e148729b41097e727c8f61.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4122/4861/files/47468347598.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0011/1002/files/ginupirijebexelod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1317/6469/files/nemedabexigib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2093/4558/files/painted_basement_ceiling.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/5866669006.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d017d5_78b5365c0c8446bdb56ff5cc14eb7b30.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7a7fb1_7fc0ae1c879f41f0b7a8fc40578d3f7e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_32d97ab57f0a47c9ab6851cf43d13cac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/41f880_809567f9af6f4a7c895d1d5a4be6bb7a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/430cb2_6ff61f59c3a34aed8009c0a1ce69fb09.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_off0000672c.bin
b783d60c145aa698bd10451d5114fe51be9eb9c1fbf80c614ce9fea67c63031c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x672C 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007968.bin
ce87048afd2bbf7157d8af096f8988b051751c25857ab2d0833e45862088351e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7968 14632 bytes