Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0f6742246a5250d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 19:32:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: efba1284024208296bf2960309d76acd SHA-1: ab1ce599b42015c8813c400404f961802b896061 SHA-256: c0f6742246a5250d4f8ce361f09e702015d73113bed14aff02de7df53aece22d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Aneurysm repair guidelines' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of embedded links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=aneurysm+repair+guidelines
    • http://files.leguesepticservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606789/651974.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7664/9127/files/59425589072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7587/1654/files/safety_reliability_and_risk_analysis_theory_methods_and_applications.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8833/9354/files/padatenotutazugutakovo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9799/5941/files/fojewozurajizitakemakad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7742/files/74377184837.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1550/6853/files/answer_me_1988_episode_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4929/5776/files/91577322434.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0623/8613/files/kuzaregonefew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8411/8171/files/57442855443.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8029/5334/files/palutebokaborebi.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_off0000615f.bin
0d1fc2da18572e51a97cad42a04af7ab39d346a7732e457dff2a13a585f591e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x615F 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007389.bin
c033598ac95f00a92c074b651af6869f83bd586cb784d645f7298bf89e713f93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7389 10112 bytes