Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9afc489c71c4989…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2020-09-06 22:50:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e4bb520bc5dfc3bd80e47ddc752b8814 SHA-1: 1cd443a9c08f1a88b825bed197e80c79a5b5e902 SHA-256: f9afc489c71c4989d2ccd069dad21a5124dba59ce2264d58081167868424fb98
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=craniofacial+anomalies+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to a PDF about craniofacial anomalies. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document's purpose appears to be to trick users into visiting the malicious URL.

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.me/wix?keyword=craniofacial+anomalies+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d400c_28baa1e2ed0246dbb34e79f3e86ac0e6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1cd0c15b13944d3c8c0a7ccd19bb429c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c43ec_339edd6ebcd54a128659918e37c9cbf6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c068f8_6a7400a06c7c42e987f71a6d1b409fc8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3826db_887e82f7e3434799aa48333bec6ee4d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4e402_442cde39001344f9a32dfe711969afc4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dcc11b_cee601205af64fa6a4acaa4e65697d38.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6290de_ee7066cd9a92426f8aaa8897caacf87f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/544e7e_f5ab4257bbd84ffcb2dec1adbd9ee3d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4da64_8b58cfcd8afe43e9b6657a920c7933be.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/417718_9ea20bc1d687486c92a8c66c85722bd9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2486b5_1ba684508f1f4a35bc53baa6c16dd618.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae059d_70e87d3fa36d45378cdf863f9a4ec1b3.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_off0000ce46.bin
9752996ae5a7241d64a243ecdde3cbff41e39ec0d0d67910093995da31bbf7a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE46 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfe1.bin
32f39ac8b8832d064ea0fbb86916da9262e4084d1271a23661976a2516e384f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE1 10376 bytes