Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cea38d0f965b6d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-07-21 09:16:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c2c94a996257f083c6b88aa2f0480ea4 SHA-1: 6afa455a34d35bc17335765698226ee387a7b0d2 SHA-256: 1cea38d0f965b6d223aac3cdd1ecde411fd45630bce0d3046f6063f035817cb3
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as an article about gastric ulcers. The document also features a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to attract victims. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary attack vector is likely the embedded malicious URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/wb?keyword=ulcera%20gastrica%20articulo%20pdf
    • http://files.d-vinedesigns.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695915/18176392.pdf
    • http://files.rsvpvolunteercaregivers.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681824/navate.pdf
    • http://files.namioncampusuno.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739883/buteninolemenagup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2351/5294/files/lekidix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/50833930904.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4671/5040/files/tixujudopilel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1733/1100/files/duganoxedim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7011/2423/files/mulupabegof.pdf
    • https://talubugejama.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/69351810017.pdf
    • https://dozosemi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/68519242490.pdf
    • https://bogivafapil.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/zobatulisifejujep.pdf
    • https://fuzejumif.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/83241772996.pdf
    • https://wijumama.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/45963331450.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fadanamimurusekebunom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1137/5267/files/59388095392.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5926/5188/files/64900867249.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3761/3461/files/lidadopetonimemisiri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8946/1410/files/61268626777.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3966/1986/files/jimakaravokakepulini.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_off000084f5.bin
c8bec88795bb785afec49328b41982d5122ff0f761a90833d60a25225aa91188
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84F5 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009656.bin
7bc8478c2883b42d71d74300c89efaa62f4fe076667f3b92a21b61993feb2bc1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9656 11148 bytes