Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75f52964e33e5967…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.9 KB Created: 2020-07-30 20:43:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2158ffc5cc6872746bcf9f8427297b99 SHA-1: 45c03732c41ce579797547a229717abc07184966 SHA-256: 75f52964e33e59671e816ba26eaba61febbdbb61ff19eccf9bcba91479d26338
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.cc'. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the ML classifier's high confidence indicate malicious intent, likely to drive traffic to malicious sites or distribute further malware.

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=retinopatia+hipertensiva+pdf+elsevier
    • http://files.yewgem.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681033/dc4a86.pdf
    • http://files.inlandnwroutes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776887/93fd99e0c7e.pdf
    • http://files.mankinstudios.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696145/memivarewud.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5054/0964/files/24019096212.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7969/5517/files/14972788627.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2256/5032/files/82511444139.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/jibikuvozi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5026/1915/files/rafawufanometorebup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7817/3343/files/61031946080.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0716/4064/files/48251713622.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1003/9719/files/5937565709.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0357/6481/files/71837050014.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2161/5775/files/vegamaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4196/4710/files/dozijusosaki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5018/8443/files/vimurose.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8052/4710/files/tetix.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000091c5.bin
c74e7e80a0aa666345687652eecade4981b243d79e390e09332fe4df73dca49d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91C5 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a2af.bin
ee462a5074ad7a60fa5d4caea6c43902a26ef93a041b3a491f3270b02d9e00dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2AF 10424 bytes