Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e702f6e4df21bbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:46:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 15f6864e4e0210e54cfe8267decc33d0 SHA-1: 935408c19c7f61dab29850736344aa3fa7dfca66 SHA-256: 4e702f6e4df21bbc1d2900aceccdbdbbb4b3a37148388391f35e09914b2eab6f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=hip+periprosthetic+fracture+icd+10'. The document also features a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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.ru/wix?keyword=hip+periprosthetic+fracture+icd+10
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7836/0987/files/99795629306.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6784/2465/files/gugixinamixiduxefami.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9670/2104/files/lekesiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5235/2159/files/wakilexo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8901/6472/files/chemistry_textbook_for_class_11_cbse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2728/1558/files/wuruzaluba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/3491/8302/files/army_letter_of_commendation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6874/2039/files/99221336529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7474/0636/files/96827757939.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/66c878_0e401055c244471db80173f2c52468b1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d7e4032911c447a1b1c289acb84cc05b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_54fb094ab1f34f27bceccd51b589b8c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_8c50a82c4cec422db57aefc829861e62.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_off00005e95.bin
e330e9c0e10c1cbceb40d6bf684241cd498bad10aba526a80a13373e81843c37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E95 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070cc.bin
b8c3c81dfdb69343592cf9fe397771fb3a6cf5dca3b09fed4eb4e9cfef70edba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70CC 13740 bytes