Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56fae28103c48a1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.5 KB Created: 2020-09-03 01:17:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ef536b9dee83cf96d78a65ab2cf55cd0 SHA-1: 264f2755ce9f863ddf0bba9f74b4acc2e355cb52 SHA-256: 56fae28103c48a1c2f2c433ea618961b28adc1d3c4d3b59cc0b7ab85ecfa5de8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing a malicious redirector link and a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=ata+guidelines+for+subclinical+hypothyroidism, which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains what appears to be the same redirector URL.

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.link/wix?keyword=ata+guidelines+for+subclinical+hypothyroidism
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8537/9237/files/64222762439.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5893/8531/files/zopitenetam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9506/4733/files/gixuw.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1d64af_d02a503cdadf491dbd7ede3a737925c8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7a359d_49b35166d8254602b4fbed8fda7a14e2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e32576_dcf21f39f759473db1e4e276dea8c244.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_302454ce0cdf42f5b196069a7f5d608f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a07927_f1ad25b3b09745cd9eb3e6e6e7b2d152.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3519/7602/files/blood_types_food_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6489/3344/files/88676361271.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3551/6318/files/60247876589.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_off00008ed0.bin
f7e8ebe47b90ad4dbdf45ae08793450716c75d79e103999461044befce62ed32
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8ED0 5800 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a277.bin
9319c51449fd73be6d0a7453dc7fe564905983cd78f0872546e1f6da1fbfbd4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA277 10116 bytes