Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2422922851b01b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 10:23:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f006e72e44e928d9c54698a54d42e58a SHA-1: 35fece98742a06b41c2adc65d11c570071b95fb9 SHA-256: f2422922851b01b671727c99c7fd2b939119631add716abc592027b34de68cac
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=causes+of+cardiac+arrhythmia+pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links and the presence of a malicious redirector suggest an attempt to lure users to harmful content or manipulate search engine results.

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=causes+of+cardiac+arrhythmia+pdf
    • http://jozaro.mrfrausto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775320/defum.pdf
    • http://bamob.innerstateproductions.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164239/8832726.pdf
    • http://files.electricreclab.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453990/lovab.pdf
    • http://files.anchoragebestcleaningservice.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813696/rekutez_xetunidetelu_tidadipajomoful.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4532/8808/files/wisokapija.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3459/0875/files/51536197225.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6830/1212/files/emojis_made_with_lines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2020/6758/files/jisosumumubazegine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5331/8298/files/91086653942.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9345/1159/files/mesepoxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0667/1517/files/58773019530.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4572/5094/files/55829923255.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kulabegidubonigupux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4392/9757/files/phaser_3_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6019/1641/files/93650523975.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9027/1642/files/39321233440.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_off0000a6f6.bin
9b614ec23dad0323e225ba0b109ec0b80f1ac55af60c8ce34c08891423f9326c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6F6 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b915.bin
6daf10821ee882c6bd6948c53b1c4d432b432ea97f930fe60b4ba5a555f6ac1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB915 10676 bytes