Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a87f36f9e6c24b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

202.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:26:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1aaf88641f009863200b35443f945494 SHA-1: b202030a2d44d0d53f61a77f2f7d2246b83ba5cd SHA-256: a7a87f36f9e6c24ba5f715c250d129a439d68198c0c5c84c4c052d8b67043088
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ati+targeted+medical+surgical+2016+cardiovascular+answers'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. This indicates the primary function of the PDF is to lure the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=ati+targeted+medical+surgical+2016+cardiovascular+answers
    • http://files.arlenegersonphd.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871499/4050277.pdf
    • http://files.stillpointwellbeing.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814050/tozipopudanog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6773/6225/files/42562109529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2885/7503/files/vunusisajerid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4489/6925/files/github_get_size_of_repo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7140/6237/files/limis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9244/2264/files/65100577921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0904/0803/files/61620723502.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3292/8671/files/xozim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0918/5688/files/20277748013.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6057/5899/files/pakanirakinewuxutodegipuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9763/6512/files/i_m_a_believer_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4061/3286/files/bartering_income_tax_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2311/3119/files/poxogemigudopilisadabokeg.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0002bf44.bin
bab72b1857b0408fd695b1047433c1626f57ea720278be9d6a7d9217704df149
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2BF44 5880 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0002d349.bin
9d98d69709643eeac2c0cf79579fe735c1e00ea2a5f9de11cd415f50453700c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2D349 16340 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000305dc.bin
d9b012042df5fe8dc074c42eae0f7627b15178249d85eb70dc7afc452d134ec7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x305DC 16132 bytes