Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35bf966fed86e20b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 00:11:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2d63621a13a6b8cfc800f5285f5d78bc SHA-1: 9f0dbe041ff8c1a833eea5a8ab98800d32456eb0 SHA-256: 35bf966fed86e20bac90d6d95f5ef85277f47a1030ede9d5dccec40c564ee107
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=febrile+seizure+aap+guidelines'. This URL is embedded within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure related to medical guidelines. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. 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.cc/pify?keyword=febrile+seizure+aap+guidelines
    • http://files.janislynnecards.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483053/3097072.pdf
    • http://files.terredetuni.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453843/1441379.pdf
    • http://files.exploringteacher.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682655/5bcc1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tefabojukiva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2154/8194/files/lukosuwaronone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2505/5387/files/70415663762.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7910/6724/files/21051212137.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0225/7823/files/26786777219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9375/2997/files/gupuxuledubofa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7243/7910/files/12515621608.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6431/0425/files/durirosofapudenusajuval.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/texigusowemojegovivek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1402/8450/files/socialdemokraterna_partiprogram_2020.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7243/7910

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000729a.bin
6a0b02513e08532e24389ded30717bdb2c3c3073be5d6de3f8b0efe57e496c2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x729A 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008490.bin
638b8240777166019e403900856f70870b60a6408fa6cf3e60a677b5ddf8b924
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8490 10668 bytes