Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f302861494ce4247…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-07-29 19:40:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e0e9c49f01bd3a4510cc9542c32b68e SHA-1: 435780b148e7dd2758a99e71c9126d3d5e21341d SHA-256: f302861494ce4247a77d4a0c31a1f2213ff1bcc9c17f1a1cae0fecb9ac909cba
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which is used to redirect users to other potentially compromised or malicious sites.

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.ru/pify?keyword=clinical+anesthesia+procedures+massachusetts+general+hospital+pdf
    • http://files.chippewafsc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397934/riwokotowekowewov.pdf
    • http://files.fultoncountyhorseandpony.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378950/duxokoxebiru-fazegaz-kikitif-mabenetoxuzato.pdf
    • http://files.shisko.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874489/xanuji_lejinusazaje_favilubaxu_rodejoza.pdf
    • http://files.nickelcityalchemy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637546/5866685.pdf
    • http://files.belmonthypnosis.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409009/cc8426d66f94262.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4886/9789/files/vofidawod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7348/6496/files/mavivevememigobaxomob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7243/8947/files/nununiwopi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1401/3606/files/rebizotiwobukijepugi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7320/0537/files/danasasusevukebomepido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6314/8695/files/71005016388.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4726/3128/files/madexepesigifutediramu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7952/4759/files/narotegezukegezilizidibum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/39720928980.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_off0000704d.bin
0b5eb11ef043bd30b2eedfdee160e41746e0473bfb091cf7f8896d41e39ba15a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x704D 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082af.bin
5adbfbc22911e13eb4f3e81609a5eb55771229076fb53d4b4e7addc88b791bed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82AF 9960 bytes