Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5181cb98e3db6bc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-09 09:32:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2bd9a76ce53c5b1eafcc39e693e1a605 SHA-1: d18f0cce6e1474b66f5b61a72791a3510bb04386 SHA-256: 5181cb98e3db6bc9264dd8dc7f9af9093b4b8468578116daad40ab3b87e84a30
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a research paper on human respiratory systems. This link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=physiology+of+human+respiratory+system+pdf', is designed to lead users to harmful infrastructure. The document also features a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, which is characteristic of SEO link farm abuse. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=physiology+of+human+respiratory+system+pdf
    • http://files.patrickhawkins.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381607/bamomenuxug.pdf
    • http://files.jghsmarchingeagles.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872032/214254.pdf
    • http://files.rachelschechtman.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969950/2610129.pdf
    • http://witaturo.nepscholarshipfund.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775162/tupogudav.pdf
    • http://files.projectwellbeing.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740141/4871470.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9194/1781/files/white_rodgers_50a50_241_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8502/8758/files/70331330870.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6661/3141/files/bukhari_shareef_arabic.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6635/8934/files/wigopodowofunana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9972/4703/files/bijopesekazabibadireko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6454/0840/files/nobajazusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5339/0743/files/ruxadil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8933/7256/files/urinary_system_functions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1610/0776/files/autocad_3d_plant.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7453/3014/files/pawilozegixupenusurot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8697/1029/files/agenda_2020_para_descargar_gratis.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_off0000686c.bin
52146fe6ec326c0d51f7e4529b4b25864759b49e11f82ee0fcdbcf780c4a5e53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x686C 5556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b2e.bin
108645769d78eccf4d89b1589f497f18515b97ad473988a8eabb9d7676d3ad69
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B2E 10212 bytes