Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16614dee5789be2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:51:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 530c51be206ce904ba681af8305295b8 SHA-1: 6a255c07e45faa4032e37218ff95e9b98140d29b SHA-256: 16614dee5789be2b045c6998dc88cd2fa97f2486c4bf8a81268a542217a0a09f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, functioning as a link farm. The primary URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=blumenfeld+clinical+neuroanatomy+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains junk data, but the presence of numerous links to external PDFs suggests an attempt to distribute or obscure malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=blumenfeld+clinical+neuroanatomy+pdf
    • http://files.renaissancefarmburlington.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741556/5349442.pdf
    • http://files.audreylewisinteriors.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380052/jewupativikemonorin.pdf
    • http://files.whitehallnaz.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384121/vokugu.pdf
    • http://files.good-vibes.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636825/f97219.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9228/6363/files/gogidinebekofinoseratodip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7086/6076/files/91336104176.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1538/7811/files/26094324065.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5511/9520/files/61212972262.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0106/0262/files/14635409435.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9940/5977/files/unity_fire_prefab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8538/0246/files/32163887362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7027/4201/files/25591290060.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0812/2270/files/gukisixasaxaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0980/8280/files/jeron.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7153/6285/files/89139723391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6982/4414/files/zalozole.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008341.bin
05e9d109a01f7814518018ca900fc5d33833f273dc87e12297719a292a3fe627
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8341 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009526.bin
d085ce0c4db498ef62e8f1c9bf54c701081b1324792da0bbc3b8b0581ddb9f1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9526 10076 bytes