Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45c06e8a5bddbfd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-09-05 10:31:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a5f8f1c0eb7cfadffc987620a2325f11 SHA-1: 0a7cc9ca10a4b0ee8d185e8f70361eb74ad43857 SHA-256: 45c06e8a5bddbfd3bba42eb9734d343840f5dccd27fa7bc274737ae72a4f0e4f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure related to "Hypertensive urgency coding guidelines". This URL, https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=hypertensive+urgency+coding+guidelines, is the primary IOC. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.club/wix?keyword=hypertensive+urgency+coding+guidelines
    • https://static.us
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ac72e0_b9adfc93ce8142fb9cdfbf1289fdadfa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b444d4_96a2aaababf34d71b10ab065830fdef4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b47cb_24ea2ea55ba14a1087cf6b2d54829bab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1df9ea_9f19ef001eaf48ba8d19295da91c93e3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f3ac6_7aa21568c0a74c42a401856d72ae74ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e62dca9eb4164cc580e4e8856dd25dcd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e2f97d989bce4ff79a7d7a2b7692f33d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6887/5157/files/25575429916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6515/5487/files/22875169633.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9773/5843/files/23898905106.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5406/9925/files/basic_electronics_components_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1173/3664/files/juderikovatekarevis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0645/9032/files/46265814744.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0952/1317/files/54085630219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3509/7245/files/1846599635.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6659/7288/files/fupijiwaforozewejabelowo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067c2.bin
2bd824b3903d192822a35ed21be9a64fcd4ec58f78bf7ec4e4f28733d3660daa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67C2 5036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078fc.bin
082e7710f11ba79f175690bf42dc4a7c72854c7c47aa43d772ad47910efd39ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78FC 9848 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009a9c.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A9C 4324 bytes