Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7914cf3f306359e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 19:03:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b4c1ab25468d20746e5aad1b76a2dac6 SHA-1: 3481605f1040235fce1299da5ff27acdcea52c32 SHA-256: c7914cf3f306359e675e635e06cabe7b22a48c6e67dbafa84ff4503ee4bd3e86
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=paediatric+anesthesia+pdf, which likely serves as a lure to a more harmful destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Paediatric anesthesia pdf' and the wkhtmltopdf application, suggesting a deceptive content presentation. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the ultimate malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=paediatric+anesthesia+pdf
    • http://files.coffershousingsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410311/sodivikenudox.pdf
    • http://files.auntiemaileshawaiiangourmetfavorites.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874237/7030284.pdf
    • http://files.mcgrathirishdancers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739116/wolopatididoxe_golaxuvupixup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zeranosorijajigafa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7181/6358/files/vitul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1750/2869/files/dunuwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8105/6935/files/gaxajeni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9324/5590/files/tissot_t_touch_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6735/6824/files/95227265353.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/32808714247.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6032/0669/files/65438354625.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9479/3630/files/vajerivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7437/8138/files/76234813993.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0763/1782/files/4957298335.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/28821374719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7539/5993/files/81078840348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4747/7667/files/77058187664.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_off00009620.bin
97e305351a14a0add49937bd8268e43fb2e7d596f35590160d0a2e3fbb6f5fdf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9620 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a7d4.bin
499795922a51a4f5f0cb4293f70477afd61cdc01e52004b9dec8830f1f95d79d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7D4 10536 bytes