Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b33c617ded9836dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-01 05:50:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 32ddfbd71d2605a8e02748920a83cdf9 SHA-1: 31de02af63ead1037774dea9c756333ddb267f66 SHA-256: b33c617ded9836ddf1fda5c1447cd1253a1a40f5aad56b4f0c868b14be7eec8c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify, designed to appear as legitimate PDF downloads. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely the ultimate destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'john hopkins antibiotic guide 2017 pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into downloading what they believe is a medical guide. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=john+hopkins+antibiotic+guide+2017+pdf
    • http://files.missouri-al-anon.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695200/8518029.pdf
    • http://files.balloonwise.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856430/91a6153bb.pdf
    • http://files.brownthrash.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775297/zuwekapanisuzi.pdf
    • http://files.rmc1studio.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968962/xodog_wugik_zokosewosexola_roriruzosajawu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9033/7189/files/32316605703.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/vijifagagekinosewo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8529/9874/files/47807056893.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7020/8662/files/ropudawejupije.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8133/4933/files/59124196706.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5777/3718/files/werirap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1430/5430/files/mutogakatemasekorununi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4501/1112/files/33674407916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8506/8456/files/13842914746.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/refitapobofubogiwimubik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5702/9018/files/99_crafting_guide_osrs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bojakotipizijogi.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_off00006550.bin
c42871a9b8996344d06fc8b2193234b74e07a784cc1b8dbebc1fd92e4cfa7466
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6550 5888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000795f.bin
e461a0ab34968bef7bf2c76855c850736f0a8f99c7b4b26ef6d2fad75c562660
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x795F 10916 bytes