Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc9cb13160a992e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 18:54:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d987026cf1f5ac5d0dc2375cb731f025 SHA-1: c10c947e85b92049bc8ffb8480aad28e48a78429 SHA-256: fc9cb13160a992e093901706d1aff4aada4c42e899be40a743e6d5351fdb0f26
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=risc+v+isa+cheat+sheet'. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the document body and heuristics confirm a link-based redirection attack.

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=risc+v+isa+cheat+sheet
    • http://megesef.citysidelax.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453247/sapepiraveguv.pdf
    • http://files.creatingmathsuccess.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606011/6a3cc0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8052/3678/files/59812201688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7509/3159/files/kufofabu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8638/0197/files/unisa_online_application_form_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9795/5229/files/wojibif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0574/7095/files/74888254553.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0423/9783/files/valve_corporation_video_games.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9085/3541/files/93179708483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4357/7246/files/wupiganebuloge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1947/1781/files/chemistry_bonding_notes.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006191.bin
943bdfe6ca0064909b20f6921f1cfaa9922cdecae5f25c85f66355193e439609
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6191 4396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000708a.bin
2b3858bff563c046172d02334f83e7f4a6cb2fcb300aed4b3724e9c8633a7912
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x708A 10576 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000094c0.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94C0 4324 bytes