Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2993eabd3d511b6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-13 21:20:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c005b46a3b532461977baf19a35b11d SHA-1: 6799cf82767aa17f0201dd0d08f077ca3dbf194c SHA-256: 2993eabd3d511b6e461d524a7153f761b80b2f9641700d1750867a9141551a24
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a direct link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a link to a PDF about cranial nerves anatomy. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the lure. The presence of multiple Shopify URLs suggests a link farm technique to obscure the malicious destination.

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=cranial+nerves+anatomy+and+physiology+pdf
    • http://files.bearsheadminis.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857305/mosim.pdf
    • http://files.aoh-patrickryandivision.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874633/4276044.pdf
    • http://files.joeuscinski.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453021/radafowogaluw_newonifoxeworep.pdf
    • http://vukakap.mychicagorides.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381497/156028.pdf
    • http://files.camptowandastore.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636995/gutupufopadovobivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9330/2178/files/81074444419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6490/1270/files/le_systme_urinaire_cours.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0098/7801/files/wasiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1246/4535/files/diagnostico_educativo_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8710/1094/files/63238858415.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75609531209.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4798/0951/files/85633322377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9997/9930/files/pidubow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8440/5153/files/index_function_google_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6453/9798/files/50542045788.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2973/3282/files/pediatric_eeg_book.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_off000072d8.bin
4f351c2fb75382ee0660cd3927832516ac2a4adb5237d4310283bd2d41f5885c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72D8 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008579.bin
cea88d03b6cc3d2598aec4c154790eafe22ac8ae01ab221cff58de251d22f4ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8579 9552 bytes