Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ab7ad0dd3ea1a43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 17:59:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 34bfaa08e7a98c959796f572616c060a SHA-1: d8796eb6fe9948dd18144b0283d622fab96a5fc1 SHA-256: 8ab7ad0dd3ea1a43e76958b071948ae48e3bbdef341b8ef365a26ebf55bf1340
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms and redirectors. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=fases+de+la+enfermedad+de+alzheimer+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the title 'Fases de la enfermedad de alzheimer pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. 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=fases+de+la+enfermedad+de+alzheimer+pdf
    • http://files.mythbuilder.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857734/xatosip-fazevatilizosip-matagefukewop.pdf
    • http://kivoxoto.enchantinteriors.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454859/cceb1185896ad33.pdf
    • http://files.topdaves.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776485/sukozago.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4017/7314/files/10727712664.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1912/4382/files/33838744931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1814/9285/files/91236267597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6649/8965/files/javascript_dom_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0467/3697/files/ledosixa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/0673/8851/files/muleraranal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8207/2732/files/11198963623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5663/5812/files/67340125705.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9626/8193/files/85365325097.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3591/7464/files/tefededegug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8328/2070/files/likawivebeburugenazedesol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4430/5061/files/57307931034.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_off0000687e.bin
a3d8c1b22382a01a6e202f4df90d6a9cc34caf0f323f0ddaf88a4f58af57e43c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x687E 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a51.bin
112a705a8ad99a2170638928a01b45960b1bb1688041ecf50198c4770ffeb97a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A51 11204 bytes