Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53e5f3892c8134fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-16 22:18:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 23f737e9af8c437a1158012df4e244d9 SHA-1: 9951e891c3d30c4d9c38c2a5d5b1f2b62b3d97ee SHA-256: 53e5f3892c8134fbf04ba177f89d3e05a5368a433ced50adc1d296d749a3fc94
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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=endometrial+ablation+rcog+guidelines'. This indicates a phishing or social engineering attempt to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to obscure the malicious intent. The ML classifier also 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.cc/pify?keyword=endometrial+ablation+rcog+guidelines
    • http://files.asapartcentre.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739060/xabuwiw-vuzasuvofuwog.pdf
    • http://files.artbylaura.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710700/dd134e.pdf
    • http://files.ryansbarattadesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969003/pinej.pdf
    • http://files.sharedpen.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874250/31feeab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6001/0906/files/chinnari_chinnari_chiluka_naa_video_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1495/2859/files/example_of_capstone_research_paper.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0807/1576/files/33685670293.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1814/8247/files/biwuvewu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5576/6942/files/grade_9_mathematics_platinum_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6522/1028/files/4811994022.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0805/6740/files/gokipurobos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/bmjv_vorsorgevollmacht.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9779/2420/files/tiduvasugiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0734/3772/files/lelepiritunuvebu.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_off00007964.bin
ae620cbcdcb7f779141effc24c85e589e77dc4d5016b38fa6ed9c86cf9960b35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7964 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b7c.bin
698c9a96b38fd172d4552ca3cfdeeac41792adf74e065369b79ca0bf40e08e4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B7C 10128 bytes