Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f65e90d06d6727ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 09:19:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a22e71d54ba7cd37b262f317081b0dd4 SHA-1: 83bcd700d99a95d2daa906f8a741010e1a2987fa SHA-256: f65e90d06d6727abb57354fd726406cdc54d3b01639bfcb651a41ee108037e69
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or link farming. One of the primary links, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=anorexia+nerviosa+psiquiatria+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'anorexia nerviosa psiquiatria pdf' and the tool 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=anorexia+nerviosa+psiquiatria+pdf
    • http://files.tiffanysews.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398164/379009.pdf
    • http://files.junamustad.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681351/70392.pdf
    • http://files.atxfashionbydesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739093/boletivivefu-nejig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7701/files/app_secrets_sean_casto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9739/0244/files/gizenujuzev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6972/5080/files/45329609794.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7701/8524/files/95807327090.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5037/5070/files/juridifedutoxogomolipamaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8397/2256/files/social_psychology_4th_edition_test_bank.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1510/0826/files/68210927480.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3608/0288/files/gerodivipola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2095/files/60621518147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6083/9079/files/sufijamisadufitibo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7432/9507/files/puworaviseroruveruwemam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bewewolifokolugetu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2834/8056/files/warobigogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8353/8331/files/thomas_calculus_12th_edition_free_download.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_off00006624.bin
4d2d6432f97b05f4202e2868c89086b4809b96d1b7f80775ff4c78bb7d46ae18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6624 5244 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007812.bin
f86c73d2e08c2609882c25828e3bf817fbdcdbb5e92266d6415753ce5ae4b931
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7812 10300 bytes