Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49462357df60d1f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 19:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb6e6272ded6dd4f821b91ade62da4a0 SHA-1: 171c1001b7139b214e1241c164dea4de2a4105bf SHA-256: 49462357df60d1f0d659eee89202557026915356e20df7d1d239cdba3e73330d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains multiple embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting it is a lure for "Surgery shelf exam review". The presence of a malicious redirector and the SEO link farm heuristic indicate an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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/wix?keyword=surgery+shelf+exam+review
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3305/8715/files/38737350265.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4168/5665/files/28281800733.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2487/5674/files/79230640610.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6258/1658/files/taxonomic_keys_in_zoology.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ea145fc830984c73b15303f77353c4a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d01287_6fc1c89bd5e34615be41754b5cb7ca73.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6706/1925/files/pezevozad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8140/8420/files/media_player_classic_full_codec.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2717/6343/files/hydrant_flow_test_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7994/9718/files/24744637859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5604/7004/files/d_d_5e_character_sheet_printable.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_off00006699.bin
762e4eafabe968a220cf37b5c6d1a41ddb77bd9499a7af3b8b9310cb1672e393
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6699 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007858.bin
838b2ace4bc9dde7c7858a82e6b112f17d7d9b383b43fdd91d0c585b8c4416dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7858 11168 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009e4f.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E4F 4324 bytes