Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c75404f0a5f5dcf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-09 07:25:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fa89a1500b8246dce601859cd8359ed1 SHA-1: 286fd47d6cb5ab94dcf336588e7bc657d248401b SHA-256: c75404f0a5f5dcf3fa70dfc94a9ff90b23ddce84001480cc43c2bcadfa2875fd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm designed to appear as search engine optimized content, specifically mentioning 'carpal tunnel patient exercises pdf'. The primary embedded URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=carpal+tunnel+patient+exercises+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is a lure to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious redirection attempt.

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.com/pify?keyword=carpal+tunnel+patient+exercises+pdf
    • http://files.ramoncatalan.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381693/nomovunal.pdf
    • http://files.dellhpc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398449/7770569.pdf
    • http://files.granderondenubians.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681066/6846173.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4445/2005/files/23694681111.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1135/8369/files/find_my_facebook_id.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4642/8062/files/35301648177.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4722/2422/files/rimaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8874/8452/files/97471795914.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6461/4303/files/69997378929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7141/5196/files/jerufobakukome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0211/6772/files/72388377058.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3106/files/93606032774.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1891/7787/files/2855350026.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4830/4797/files/fejopemolokufofabalejupo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7749/3146/files/swagger_api_documentation_to.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_off000075cf.bin
80f1483ba1b748e31479a99d1e7cdb1bc56531c63ed25eba4b5c5f92fcb18cfd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75CF 5124 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008749.bin
b2ca2e64aedddc3638e0e815ae20e0cd78cb2539ca888bb2ed296ce1551dd8bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8749 10192 bytes