Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc8d3754fbf9b267…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.2 KB Created: 2020-07-22 00:40:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 7707cee881c32029914e9485a0f278f4 SHA-1: 1d2a03f1d4144ea004dd0fb90d64a30935f5f0b2 SHA-256: bc8d3754fbf9b2674c1333d45c3f3d7cc7275f9285cff073d924e367a5756c43
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a technique often used to redirect users to malicious websites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, disguised with a keyword related to AI in medicine. Another heuristic flagged the document as a PDF link farm, with many external links, including one to cdn.shopify.com. The presence of these link farms and the malicious redirector suggests an attempt to distribute malware or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/wb?keyword=aplicaciones%20de%20la%20inteligencia%20artificial%20en%20medicina%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hansroegelearchitect.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408581/wizikupopofafurularu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wayfaringbride.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813714/d5f7e62969d82ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sidneyshelbychamber.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696145/fidujo_zuvetare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6046/9660/files/1039092330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/38935964995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8935/3120/files/33370189416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7078/3645/files/72677655847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velefibilon.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/mozuxigidamatepupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kadipuxosika.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/16488582901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fazupisis.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/54184487439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mapobaz.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/82648692787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3740/8936/files/mazijojafokitetogubegumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0486/2375/files/putaguvujenazosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9266/3702/files/20268613567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9200/0422/files/daworufuluxeper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2562/1404/files/wamasewiliduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5384/0534/files/wafobepaziminojafusurarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8628/9832/files/61381004738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0877/8663/files/9417875502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8288 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 1370af885631c3cc785217437c7b175537598350009bcdaacaaec79b096ba0a0
font_01_sfnt_off00009440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9440 11360 bytes
SHA-256: e6db23b06aa78e107f589219f18699725fd3830ed50300304f9e2ffc9b105962