Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cdf1cac2242257d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-09-05 18:11:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f7a8d804a9d01c8f65737e9df10fbe7d SHA-1: b55bd7156a0c3339554b4580544f54cd761869ce SHA-256: 1cdf1cac2242257d9e5d06b388f47b485dd8392282d2c4b9b6c41f69fd62d645
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a large number of embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=febrile+neutropenia+guidelines+nsw'. Another heuristic indicated a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to benign Shopify domains, likely used for SEO poisoning or to host further malicious content. The document body contains garbled text and the target URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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=febrile+neutropenia+guidelines+nsw
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2207/3508/files/animals_and_their_young_ones_names_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8298/1278/files/28095234936.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5398/1594/files/nilavazutezu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5458/8316/files/ziwopopufune.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fef806_b18a67e97eb14ad7913812513da13a11.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b68be_bff3441818cf413ca58f8afdd31a5f55.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5242/5631/files/non-_woven_geotextile_data_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0454/9531/files/2138020212.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3764/7002/files/atlanta_braves_home_schedule_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/59022585862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9764/4449/files/bumufuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6186/2810/files/zexavalinexalimopipupujil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7451/9194/files/free_sheet_music_for_5_string_banjo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2318/7618/files/eastwood_magnetic_plasma_guide.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_off0000899d.bin
537c7b4c7cb00e3cd69ceed45d9dd32c12d74575db7b96338ea88a3d65e46af5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x899D 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009bc4.bin
1557c6e8cb1aeba60e4a3a73a17468892a5bf0d1bd713d18a4b3d0ba3b9661ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BC4 10548 bytes