Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb9912f0f0794ba9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:01:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fbff974ffbabd58aa35864ba0da5b52b SHA-1: 5e83a81136702debf2cc0767cd8a0c557a646390 SHA-256: fb9912f0f0794ba9bb0b8a258c451d38af626b1bea2a75df07ab2f54de4d119d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it points to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a large number of external links, with one identified as a redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=nms+casebook+surgery, which is likely the primary lure.

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=nms+casebook+surgery
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce5d00_b889bcc8d93d48d6a60dded40c6f7c46.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b65acf_6634a110623c42bead130a55647cbaff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6095cd605a4b43bca7bb6f59728d8c0f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9b556fd772c44d8b82230052d94cc704.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9917e18e7d0143e69e14cd82f8205fd7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_548c94c05dee4178b9bbfeab9398e19c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e4eb4_730eefa5272c4737af4ce9a3775f88ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3ee411929aed468eaa0a2edda25113f1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_40244e66c4814352a3abc318b520d38e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e53d4_fdfe25d24530488281b7fd1006d9df4c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7082a_401925e25aea49a9919d6200d44ccef5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efb3f0_b8d65d2002d946d194d2eb9aa708c793.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/289c5e_fea59d0b6b684b168155531ae243a306.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dd683b0eeb184becba5b53404da3e5b5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_42f546c2cd7845dba95f46381acebb02.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9374a7_ea55e42a6dab44fca32d6e7181ad6484.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b7182_5084eff30a894f2d96ff503f768fa159.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_off000059aa.bin
0957ddb616b5c4f39c417efea5579026485fe4f5385f86654f8b7a4cdb13f549
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59AA 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006bda.bin
3a20ca83614c86267ec86d4319b74285e3081e2132aeb657dcb40555beec2486
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BDA 10192 bytes