Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f21c607a08bcc2b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 20:21:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ccba89da7a3c5e5e09982ea7fb135e33 SHA-1: 0451d3786922dd920de091eab7041704c788f390 SHA-256: f21c607a08bcc2b453ecb7e6a8c5266fe6205905d3df1083395561d70713c80e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=anemia+pediatria+pdf+2016, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous PDF links suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or engage in SEO abuse.

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=anemia+pediatria+pdf+2016
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9212/4572/files/69333447099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3489/4496/files/mathally_graphing_calculator_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6593/3973/files/24389320258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1896/7450/files/problem_solving_skills_scale.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6260fe_932854df409440aea64e6ae9e83fc2ea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c2b2242b23a34720a24ff65f0e9daa88.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_52cc22bbb8c04c398fb28627c88c81bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e140007085bc436899dd611ba47cae93.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4522/2557/files/d_d_trap_generator.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9635/0624/files/purpose_driven_life_small_group_study.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8061/7885/files/90684901110.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4593/6535/files/casio_g_shock_5146_manual.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_off00009096.bin
7841ce26296005afb5278a9fe55bf2ab0d4df26dcb2223b00396519321751c9c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9096 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a30a.bin
fa97675389190c9b9de83e75fbe5a608a18894946ae3360013701fa9d2905f8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA30A 12828 bytes