Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbfe293fb72ffa7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 01:17:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb8fb55a82dd6d84a61d55841a53846b SHA-1: 510d2dd794d59c5008787ad79f8acb1218fe998f SHA-256: fbfe293fb72ffa7c86e981d54492400fd10b02d2878a698e9b8d5da7469a8dd8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'ttraff.com' with a keyword suggesting a veterinary book, which is a common lure for phishing or malware delivery. This link is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links to external PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent.

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=veterinary+books+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1570/8577/files/fukatapegiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4672/3996/files/vofolifidefadulezulu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4430/7098/files/75740524271.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1843/5229/files/eclipse_solar_e_lunar.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3bd76b87bfb6442fb349109ab8d373ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_84925f555f054e87bcf7bacf60537fb1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bb13a2_ddc618c58b0c49bdb45fb2373592f179.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/253000_fa124d8159e64e5aaa8273c386ece02d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0049ca_ef7088461330416aa263c4936b21a509.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2336/7335/files/praise_god_from_whom_all_blessings_flow_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1461/7250/files/gokewakunuzupatad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4887/7736/files/40089701341.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d54300_0eef22d42ff343258052ec17048c5673.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93c935_95cff5e946e741638e4dabe7fa4c7984.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7ed05_9af12544d941411ab19a809773021dec.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_off000056d0.bin
718898ff1da470696e71abd103c49952e28a107a7af081917e3ca2b00b39fbf5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56D0 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000068d1.bin
ad0b1c997b979fe4af6ebe7023e9709fa15e07b8c3d9507795a8b8b82f19a1c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68D1 10660 bytes