Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8307511264257c4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 07:21:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 313d68b6ec1218cb8edd8cedaa6cbb97 SHA-1: 5b5408db33cac671cc2c0e54d1b569282d21629c SHA-256: 8307511264257c4e4717370f09040bda0c48862c4d19a11a61ef8233ae711772
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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=download+keith+moore+anatomy+textbook+pdf', is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDF files, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute 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.cc/pify?keyword=download+keith+moore+anatomy+textbook+pdf
    • http://files.crishayantis.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776223/9517733.pdf
    • http://files.valleyviewanimalfeeds.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871621/xugewewil.pdf
    • http://fuveb.marketingedgecollegiatesummit.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/a029edc85.pdf
    • http://files.bethelmt.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776542/fexubenisuxero.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4654/1211/files/82215379494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1753/4629/files/xufabixovip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6015/8873/files/26085405371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6307/3181/files/73440581444.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5863/4658/files/35114360613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2351/5294/files/62909169350.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1191/5421/files/sutevevapofiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2076/0734/files/d_d_4e_psionic_power.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5213/0716/files/zejebukeja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6643/3429/files/67889015647.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5489/0149/files/83344532465.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_off0000958a.bin
c42ac8aee639e8e404a6e7b0f25f61b51edc75c833fb5c39a8b969dbd48761ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x958A 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a86d.bin
9088c4c16a276338601c452299673a4056b49f2496d59d132974e5548125acae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA86D 15504 bytes