Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4e5c6b12d00ef19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-09-01 00:51:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c9eb1e38a0ca2d1844cd8bd2044b2669 SHA-1: a9c32b0aedeabb4a600c8640cf84c1ea2591c246 SHA-256: d4e5c6b12d00ef1924f7a61ff6b2ca59d0ec7eb2db48971974dc05c76a23953d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site disguised as a document about computer applications in pharmacy.

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/wix?keyword=applications+of+computer+in+pharmacy+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7603ae_096d123a5b4f4de28da4f318c7159aac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/47b1e8_b0f1af4e567c4d4486018869dceda2d2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_04afe87fd3cb4a208c6c7bbae3d3568e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d9d1f5_1c122f3d265b4e6689026f475a297c88.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5d855_2ba4c992e3b944238b8dd6e9c04a5c1e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5a943_bae06f9b0de244eab249040b3bc9a939.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb6612_58b1ebbe90564415ada9fa3b9c344731.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0547/4978/files/debovezafidolov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7719/7221/files/familia_enterobacteriaceae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79e0dc_20f766c779924e25a6957e27d2c11274.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b50c55_18375a9e726b4c16be1c1033af36c1c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_35abd24c862d4319b7e29aed266c0f7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/23b571_d715bdd72a2e4aa5b22f66123e22974a.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0547/4978

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000069f1.bin
8bd551bbf8ff810545f5805dd9c2ff3679bbf566a0fb6534f11a1b5cc6e89544
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69F1 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c00.bin
5ab8620f9c925fe9b42b37283828de6621e0586caf52febfcf81e070136f3e95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C00 10252 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009edc.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EDC 4324 bytes