Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 789b1a4e08bbb645…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 16:28:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 354b6816b50ff58338088e65be55785d SHA-1: d57a30ac8bf068ffdc8b28f94ed142a006011088 SHA-256: 789b1a4e08bbb645c5cd139188e66f37a9d80adc2452f671a71577ec85a0b30f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded links that point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially obfuscated, includes text suggesting it is a 'Cinahl nursing guide reference', likely a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com', indicates a link farm strategy to distribute malicious content. 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.com/pify?keyword=cinahl+nursing+guide+reference
    • http://titikar.bhuvadentalcare.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969723/polaxafopaxazilidor.pdf
    • http://zasodamov.phloxdivinity.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681409/9318641.pdf
    • http://musajizu.chisagocountyfair.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379992/7287413.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5575/9011/files/56706457316.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/6814/9151/files/warafiderefazeluxes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6901/3144/files/bts_heartbeat_song_mp4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/47020067560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/challenge_bhojpuri_movie_hd_video_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9641/6160/files/gopodazadozegomisurafuvaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3033/1039/files/livro_epidemiologia_basica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9836/5340/files/public_administration_syllabus_for_upsc.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_off00004e82.bin
143733435c5b9254f646222fb1c09a76764ac73581ed49aae2bfeb407d13ab54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E82 5188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006013.bin
b2074439bc683b849b0aa45c8b533f1de5fd01bbb59ab4312d9a895381c4c1b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6013 10224 bytes