Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de8842df4fe21a8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.8 KB Created: 2020-08-18 17:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1de35887cf658ac311511b17858380d0 SHA-1: 7de7ee28bc47fc6e90a5d6b11eff961dcb4ac4ca SHA-256: de8842df4fe21a8f385831744f6fa41bee0596b6e70043908c868cdb46282f97
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning model and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=popliteal+nerve+block+usg+guided' is a primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a lure or redirector. The document body contains garbled text but includes the same suspicious URL, reinforcing its presence.

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=popliteal+nerve+block+usg+guided
    • http://tibewo.bvcgames.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739573/06a83a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4920/5405/files/libasomorezekife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/33374625424.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4815/7859/files/53763872123.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2216/1832/files/small_extension_in_google_chrome_browser.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3565/5335/files/82098086303.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1236/5211/files/92858626759.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7463/4403/files/articulos_de_hernia_discal_cervical.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4764/1510/files/22039589153.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1052/2277/files/86892700444.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2824/0794/files/android_recyclerview_adapter_github.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8580/7268/files/63003010924.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7416/files/16240792295.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_off0000be5d.bin
96dd69dd7a6fb27c5a01e743f47b6ef4b5618b74889c83b5e35f43ebce70b960
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE5D 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d11c.bin
bb03eb7ea1b984d242ef856b62ebad7be831e52ede2311855c0f7f130d1c96d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD11C 12832 bytes