Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2a33aea851cf66c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.4 KB Created: 2020-08-29 03:28:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: abdd740535528ebf0341b0f382321574 SHA-1: 86fb21e0858a8979f7c19f164d2dd9fc143ff7df SHA-256: d2a33aea851cf66cb62ad9394d9176a0c6adc7c5bf6577974011aea92f7931a8
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a significant portion of which point to a domain associated with redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=salud+publica+y+medicina+preventiva+rafael+alvarez+alva+pdf+gratis', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for SEO manipulation or to serve further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.com/wix?keyword=salud+publica+y+medicina+preventiva+rafael+alvarez+alva+pdf+gratis
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a25d2ea2402347baa32c25210f26d2f1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_45a2e0854b5641fba2cdaac8bd7316d6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d767d4356dc14b54bb98c494b08ba54e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0700a533236345458e12373462f05a7b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1966/4540/files/free_donation_form_template_word.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3671/0824/files/64239812817.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8918/0310/files/house_of_the_dead_arcade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0306/0128/files/proform_elliptical_cardio_hiit_review.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9275/5111/files/6368116721.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3927/6707/files/troy_bilt_xp_pressure_washer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8481/5259/files/le_dialogue_des_carmlites_bernanos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7833/6165/files/wufubamuzidoxawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1724/6632/files/26670207657.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007989.bin
905a4e81e1a09d61b9bcf6095d5613c9f665b276dcd368afca072cc0a7d90ac5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7989 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008cd9.bin
6a498960c6c5c50fa2a36083ea49a72cefd7624cf0ff846fc89375b8a5315892
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CD9 11396 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b1d0.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1D0 4324 bytes