Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dc0163c99803518…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-09-06 13:12:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 181be514697cb7f8a4237b0fc52d7ed5 SHA-1: 03c0b208ea60ce11d0cdf8bc9c75b575505c285a SHA-256: 2dc0163c99803518b6a5ad9777cbb1d46fbf5b724b7c6ad921c96a13d8731c2e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of an SEO spam campaign, embedding a large number of links to external PDF files. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=certificado+medico+bolivia+2018+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The majority of the embedded links point to benign PDF files hosted on Shopify, likely to inflate search engine rankings. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.link/wix?keyword=certificado+medico+bolivia+2018+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4694/4416/files/gunudigonarilobinazirej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7047/9766/files/49051135993.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6985/7176/files/38671110676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2550/6208/files/manualidades_con_reciclaje_paso_a_paso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4885/files/pijaderodu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/7149/9416/files/51376126588.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1868/9432/files/how_to_convert_kindle_book_to.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2a1429_f369a195c67242beb9508d4bc0ae97f2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6924eb_2161d468ab064288bab1c181ca1989de.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_12dbbae6700946b2bd35f5b8641ff41c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ea3742cd8f644fc99f78fa4b15bf0c61.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/902d29_4d3e73251171470e9f80bd92477fb202.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a18aa6_255c2a7247244b88928b5746ebb1dbd0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/55cc32_8a61a74fea1a4f989cb517d24868cd6c.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_off00006552.bin
86d90c8c8c7fb39f888bd34d917c38c73dae171083d92acf37c2ef0516485974
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6552 5748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078cf.bin
f362f41bc6bc7fd1ffbc16909a7b5e527ebf3b0dbc4895d84ae5b4c555161b16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78CF 11580 bytes