Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5527c926844513a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 05:40:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb7be9c879f2b59eb5dc44d82dd390d6 SHA-1: c8495861159f6f617aa13bf4e4479220237860d2 SHA-256: b5527c926844513a9225b1cab9674430ba59d62eb9c500721564a2f55a38d988
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=statistics+for+non-statisticians+pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous external links, combined with the malicious redirector, indicates a likely attempt to direct users to harmful content or to manipulate search engine rankings.

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=statistics+for+non-statisticians+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7449/4369/files/damjanov_pathophysiology_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5528/3352/files/can_i_eat_oysters_while_pregnant.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0667/3575/files/calabria_guida_turistica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7186/3961/files/kegobududamit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1020/3556/files/cement_production_technology.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9a0d2140dc5c485c8c0658163308a9da.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7954/1671/files/vonufozutunonatudesipizes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4177/8838/files/under_the_dome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0532/1109/files/polyethylene_foam_sheets_bunnings.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/tamabilogibekiseme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7533/8389/files/89164643649.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8779/7160/files/12433124892.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_off0000694b.bin
b94d3e33fe20bd7030631196562da17fa6384fac93e94a0971c5fe23f86b17ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x694B 5252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b2b.bin
7d044c02e53d111e0d840376fd2c149ff910c2888eb07565c7fcd260ec30e3f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B2B 10356 bytes