Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be0789e560843c9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-07-24 11:58:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c541528a3187d26a894ab828bd9e58b8 SHA-1: 3a60a113211e0c0fbb10bbf12c4c4f7106308da5 SHA-256: be0789e560843c9ea164bd5e4d8a5c4e6d18c57b731331c7ef13b255da9734bd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised as hypokalemia treatment guidelines. It also features a link farm of numerous PDFs hosted on Shopify and other domains, indicating a campaign to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector attack pattern.

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/pify?keyword=hypokalemia+treatment+guidelines
    • http://files.kaelynschmidtdesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302907/6051424.pdf
    • http://files.mylifesaparody.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070992/jiravetixi-bewipititovozev-kasebadut.pdf
    • http://files.fidesdesigncards.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398487/rexivuzalefi_zowaxetagavilew_tedofelojunof_mojalelasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8260/4963/files/92849539637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0386/2440/files/dutusukup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/16331572093.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6333/6350/files/figedidarudobegujup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5359/6310/files/tosazawebenij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8670/8890/files/gomafunegawomuze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3196/0474/files/mesaxotabifosi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5593/8725/files/73763660391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6388/6495/files/divazotopokafan.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_off000074f3.bin
ce6756be1daacf833c8e8787fc810b93a23d33cd396528269cf9cf04779e7b78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74F3 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000086d5.bin
4d7bb0ef6bd7259618451b02b1c57cf7ed40350f9e5d6e86d67e58d79fe71b8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86D5 11936 bytes