Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1ba7514be1be5e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 01:06:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b9daf8eeb0102d8f6a265af5f696c5ac SHA-1: 6886115728b9ed6394d6071295b51606658c0a2e SHA-256: b1ba7514be1be5e98f8d52dc6a720c0ec152243f4270cc88ddef5f8f09f7e779
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.com`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Hepatic encephalopathy review article pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious intent. The presence of a link farm and the ML classifier's high confidence further support the malicious nature of this document, likely serving as a delivery mechanism for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
  • 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.
  • 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=hepatic+encephalopathy+review+article+pdf
    • http://files.tuftsasce.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380107/fogexafodo.pdf
    • http://fowagudug.delicatetouchhealingarts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437886/5148251.pdf
    • http://files.championcoffee.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874265/8857414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0980/8280/files/diragepab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1637/9816/files/60505288237.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/sagipimewigif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3165/7621/files/36615183380.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4078/3008/files/suxutebenapunelidasusipuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2260/4695/files/catia_electrical_harness_design_training.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6836/6760/files/scuffham_s_gear.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3143/6186/files/jolararakovajalikorafejiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/nilexokisakunofefivoxedif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2978/1918/files/28950435254.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2168/1315/files/15965874840.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5519/4011/files/process_analysis_by_statistical_methods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2749/6087/files/html_form_auto_submit.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_off00008bf9.bin
2837cf702b8116aba54c6e53f93855d7335207f75943e670ddae4dc203672ab7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BF9 5068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009d3c.bin
62bbc2532d793d865b9ba96307bbde3daa2a1671afd39c424836d694d35b5db1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D3C 10636 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c124.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC124 4324 bytes