Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06071fd72e41a848…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.8 KB Created: 2020-08-01 00:00:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b2638ecdc6b8ea78feb710605b60a6d4 SHA-1: 4ce950a2bf465ef7945fb23729f9264061e1c932 SHA-256: 06071fd72e41a848a5fa6e868148ca04c6695b7f2f2005874c77918f84285f2c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body also contains a direct link to this malicious URL, disguised as a search result for 'mccance pathophysiology 7th edition pdf'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links to other PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high probability of 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/pify?keyword=mccance+pathophysiology+7th+edition+pdf
    • http://files.clearhorizon.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814056/1648542.pdf
    • http://files.nadeemkhan.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695714/nazurira.pdf
    • http://files.97silverspring.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740517/derikoruweje_maleziroxukurov.pdf
    • http://files.grow-grace.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382134/8313646.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8889/6415/files/2276959829.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7467/3057/files/poraxedi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5170/3706/files/gerez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9963/5355/files/jelusogofobefugaxun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2754/5763/files/22478219909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9881/6150/files/55819374120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7656/7711/files/28857793810.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5253/8787/files/xapuzimewomilumoxikul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0265/8979/files/ninovudogig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0990/8637/files/51100393165.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004452.bin
ad8dbd052bb49ea8e3f448811ffafdb97af70ca3a2fccda196318a5976b489da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4452 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005731.bin
15f6af48a2a2f0411502ab627cc80559effe7e0280e45e30780fe9949883ffe2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5731 9940 bytes