Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aee855e22e3e9f09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 15:46:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c75126116afcc77d07c77de7d005c00e SHA-1: 06f9e6437802118e7654870596844d382d37227d SHA-256: aee855e22e3e9f09a1e2ac336d4ab3a1eac171aea2a4d82cb1439f5add65dbbf
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to its extensive use of external links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=piriformis+muscle+syndrome+mayo+clinic', which is also listed as a suspicious IOC. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

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/wix?keyword=piriformis+muscle+syndrome+mayo+clinic
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ff9b8_9002468bd0584d6881d2ae4a2ccf804c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d57bd_ca200065bd2a49cb8ba197b02023058f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83e24f_017f7333790740adb711430bb245c990.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7967/7590/files/xujizupiburekewomakefipad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/gazujekelusikadak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6550/8002/files/25997850903.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2925/0719/files/segeserarivazuba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5754/5365/files/ab_blood_type_food_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1841/1417/files/tigakavogusumenixemajoxu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bfbc46_e0cc202ee5d9401ea0d5f8b6298a8aa6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/576447_49ced3dd8d674193a6dcd1b08472039d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89363e_96fa3a0e0a444f56bc6d95622d855922.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2f68eb444f0f46489efea14ce3ee0019.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_02ed8feb30ae41d4a319594468e12df3.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_off0000ac2e.bin
cfb403d0fa052cf86212b79e3040a82c0324181cb0de4d981ea9a5505de91566
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC2E 5268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000be0b.bin
3bb831e01ef67eb556ea252ff716590615ace0e9e56691dd22dea82877036564
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE0B 10020 bytes