Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 520ef37568b0045e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.4 KB Created: 2020-08-25 13:07:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 35973ab6c71abadc07bfc0e3820b83ac SHA-1: 409ae3add38a960c0f46502e14dc722b7ca10ec0 SHA-256: 520ef37568b0045e6ea49248f7253c6fdcc0b3dcc047d85a3031c14531a177f0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=pectus+chest+deformity', suggesting a lure related to a medical condition. The presence of numerous external PDF links, including one to a Shopify domain, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/pify?keyword=pectus+chest+deformity
    • http://takulagib.sdss4seoul.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969140/libidebixu-tukonenapifel-javokozolikezev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopif
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4424/9504/files/1337015099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3177/9745/files/40255823960.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4786/9850/files/mabog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6673/7311/files/31163357956.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6301/7629/files/77803589402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9356/5342/files/wokutijigufugafumetaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0006/2367/files/35534826035.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2956/9434/files/35403863378.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8312/8214/files/23013541051.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0827/6126/files/kerev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9359/9132/files/77755921729.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3386/1018/files/10337227353.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0126/6851/files/tipos_de_anemia_falciforme.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_off0000bb99.bin
e8de385d763ccea4056f6d87f035bafaff59d0d8593d893fb640bce8d6d9b79a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB99 5124 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cce9.bin
35462aaef33da6fda402ccaf35557d9d0deb1c3cb7b1ba859ef009cdff9880e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE9 10404 bytes