Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad7892da10dd16ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 19:46:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3751341170fa0681e9727a4e2bd354ed SHA-1: b55e9d57edb7e0e2de138c5402aa28e003ceb503 SHA-256: ad7892da10dd16abf5a17be9bd5424ab1d4fecf6a5f5392c396adc6b8349691a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as information about medical procedures. The document also features a large number of links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.ru/pify?keyword=ultrasound+guided+needle+biopsy+neck
    • http://files.joel-nichols.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379844/8746961.pdf
    • http://beged.starzgymca.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815296/7984354.pdf
    • http://zamematir.tintawitaelderliving.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874038/8938673.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8743/4662/files/19080795009.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8309/4434/files/aiims_pg_prospectus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4272/6310/files/28871993045.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4247/9000/files/braveheart_answer_the_question_gif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3532/0735/files/nitofaba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/6050/5248/files/biology_book_for.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1921/4756/files/99260503148.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0371/5489/files/75689100366.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9177/2063/files/18261447987.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4244/6231/files/figure_caption_report.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_off00006649.bin
5d350fd331704ac70881365894f417efd8def7072134e1116e5921c93773d974
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6649 5420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078c0.bin
d3f8f66bce9a3e63fc574ac4ebff81f9621b922c093d9f3c2f1fbea9bf55f757
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78C0 10324 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009c02.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C02 4324 bytes