Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2521691a5803585…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.0 KB Created: 2020-09-04 06:57:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de2fe0a04c972f737ab22ea0f8ace522 SHA-1: 51c57be7e560a98fd7a1d1ff5415a2bc6c681149 SHA-256: a2521691a5803585773dec97bfd7d4568c60f6d4a3bf910af657125a1e749274
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the URL 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=diabetes+treatment+guidelines+2017+ppt', which is part of a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting a lure related to 'diabetes treatment guidelines'. The presence of a link farm indicates an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users.

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/wix?keyword=diabetes+treatment+guidelines+2017+ppt
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6203b9_91c48da6ad8e4e96aacc296069f33422.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/30ea26_00d037d9d4834fe69aeeb2522e57ae4b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/956c05_35ffb4859356467395fc6ca88653933d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e42c35_fe6b33a390254b75b728fa69117cf656.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a6c34eea607d423bbeb400693806f6c4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8042/3326/files/suxokufefozanoredenupiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0311/7721/files/nitrogen_cycle_ppt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0469/9265/4488/files/14584243886.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9180/3801/files/asthma_pathophysiology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7374/7609/files/53130378261.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/64830269039.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3431/9776/files/pamave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3965/3030/files/cancer_de_colon_peru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1835/3821/files/49180572223.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_off000167e5.bin
053ee65d0413cb1bd1fcfa15c44f33a6f939c6ebdb614b20d17a46f47f7b2f3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167E5 5824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00017bab.bin
9206fcc47de22f006abc6b78cc3f4638d55ac5c01062d52b9779cf3c686ff677
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BAB 10376 bytes