Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2babc896d572f96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 22:31:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d8f6d4c48d6dc6efb8bdc752df8c806d SHA-1: 28eba948c6715bddfb62478d3f34a8a187853481 SHA-256: c2babc896d572f9608d1e6ac2c859ac0722801232d6758ab828af1d9472eda11
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) known for malicious activity. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains a URL that is also present in the embedded links, suggesting a coordinated effort to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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=tratamiento+nutricional+para+anemia+ferropenica+pdf
    • http://files.theeaglegallery.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696483/dudalizekudebefufema.pdf
    • http://files.opheliawest.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968968/6676c5b8eac59.pdf
    • http://files.contemporarylawblog.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437702/38cb972.pdf
    • http://files.newmarlboroughfiber.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407823/1087036.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6547/5229/files/vafudejotugofalabarapenus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8641/9870/files/interview_questions_and_answers_for_computer_science_teachers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8017/9107/files/all_algebraic_formulas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9619/3686/files/casting_defects_handbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3653/2136/files/xavimite.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9926/8003/files/difference_between_light_microscope_and_electron_microscopy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9112/2584/files/50771695074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/94229011204.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5848/6678/files/3311521608.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9709/5333/files/mixadivofibim.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_off00006526.bin
68688202eb211580b3d04b869af4784ad8c7afae28d4a53cad5900b1dcf86345
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6526 5072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007653.bin
9fb8739c22ab9b549b6b23b94afa11409b0d5900b5e1d2969026ef3643aeb4a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7653 11528 bytes