Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e93622b6ab53f132…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 19:04:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 25df612ba7309b0d949bf8425d4dfc5c SHA-1: 3f378446a07b7dc846deeb229d68190bc70161eb SHA-256: e93622b6ab53f1327fde71754385a84c507ade61dfdda125c2856598736733fa
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that is disguised as medical guidelines but redirects to a malicious URL (ttraff.cc). This URL is part of a link farm, with many other PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a coordinated SEO poisoning or spam campaign. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the malicious redirector link.

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=hypertension+icd+10+guidelines+2019
    • http://madekume.saharness.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969265/04d740d.pdf
    • http://puwotaki.kerrionmission.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164312/26dd711fa89442.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0477/1999/files/37449048767.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8153/0534/files/sadut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0942/6079/files/pakajofedoxez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6598/9530/files/contemporary_worship_songs_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5048/4390/files/nuxidavepe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3171/5225/files/lirejepikejipolonuwozaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3260/7894/files/python_list_peek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/6861/4808/files/acute_abdomen_ppt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1061/2644/files/bufosoluvisisalobiwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6843/2288/files/62854840772.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6743/9264/files/82433177030.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1433/2309/files/xokawedazasebijakodinuxep.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_off00005a33.bin
293b549691955cadaabb031a34cf7ba3bfd050c70c6fb6f5075d9d49211b4857
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A33 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d4d.bin
92846d950da47233b59d1018279e4399cfafb40b0009375460a7a5b70deb8e0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D4D 10060 bytes