Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ec78035f20c2b24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 01:44:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e50af5c6118ab3835d33ae9e7a02cedc SHA-1: 08df9f5fe5eec2618afe6f71667a8c67de05627c SHA-256: 4ec78035f20c2b245d77d1157cc0eb6147c2a8be6832fa26d6102deaba1b8421
154 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 pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and appears to be a lure related to medical information. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous Shopify URLs suggests a link farm for SEO poisoning, likely to increase the visibility of the malicious redirector.

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/pify?keyword=pathologie+de+l%2527+articulation+temporo+mandibulaire+pdf
    • http://tivip.fieldswewander.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681821/foluvanunozapavit.pdf
    • http://files.lakeridgedance.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681156/2964071.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7711/files/30151753319.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2232/6696/files/bubarotok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6673/7311/files/peton.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0306/0128/files/cho_gath_jungle_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0124/9955/files/fakinibofemibedapepado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6490/1270/files/tojodezidoketedixur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4755/0119/files/xabibibesexeleg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5145/6411/files/munna_bhai_mbbs_video_mp4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/11067845032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8938/7939/files/79584477580.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6954/6396/files/human_rights_watch_world_report_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8538/0246/files/cateye_strata_cadence.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_off0000692c.bin
b6bad60beb3b9e3a52dcc6eb5af71914eca7224f8bc579719ab507d97bdd0e58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x692C 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b84.bin
4e60c5aee3725999cc3146193b55e6529b0a1ce74c236d0dff43eb59cf2c9f0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B84 12308 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a1e0.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1E0 4324 bytes