Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 525ef56a33733fa1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 11:39:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a434c1a5be9268c2771dc7c1d661728d SHA-1: 292f9624099101b80250985f785282a07743f521 SHA-256: 525ef56a33733fa198fc53a5a041f125c048415b8aa41ac7a9faac2cfda194a1
150 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, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=clinical+laboratory+hematology+3rd+edition+pdf+download', leads to known malicious infrastructure. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=clinical+laboratory+hematology+3rd+edition+pdf+download
    • http://files.christineleecounselling.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739155/borukeri.pdf
    • http://zomawusad.intransitlimited.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/visazemowu.pdf
    • http://files.nokillhuntsville.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455883/jalupi.pdf
    • http://files.karlielucas.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873921/1936102.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2921/7958/files/senosatunozubebonanenazu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7145/4883/files/8th_grade_go_math_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7342/8888/files/6438919173.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9177/7949/files/becker_cpa_books_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1419/2284/files/nyc_food_protection.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8611/7019/files/7555675318.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2214/8003/files/24982936613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0930/9848/files/23628182469.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5920/6561/files/jujugezetoder.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1020/1499/files/26960526454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0413/3525/files/razujasovomasomutimatemo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9569/5265/files/cambridge_primary_science_activity_book_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3630/3782/files/45364141923.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6249/2324/files/carcel_de_amor_diego_de_san_pedro.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_off0000754c.bin
f196235a797f24bf781d1e5d836fd1efa42aa294a240f52e089b5fee8d8762ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x754C 5792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000088e3.bin
a3efa4ceb5e705338a9a403290d29783fb1f6852c5b95f5fc392190b30689d8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88E3 9896 bytes