Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eb57df6316a2da9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 17:41:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fa9b0283811bfae0d7b53bb2ec10b6b6 SHA-1: 48b657aa24d01586f9e77faa5a1176828f18fb42 SHA-256: 1eb57df6316a2da9d164e0dbb1cfc8cb39ec9d4ea51d0bf6db6a1b029d4a0962
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs, forming a link farm. One of these URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=biozone+anatomy+and+physiology+answers+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm structure strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to 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=biozone+anatomy+and+physiology+answers+pdf
    • http://files.coryblake.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874141/8777e5e.pdf
    • http://files.minneysyachtsurplus.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872285/7373998.pdf
    • http://files.artlynchactingcoach.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380868/tagaxe.pdf
    • http://files.jamaxe.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856815/3164290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3551/7337/files/gapisipok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6670/4550/files/kewigalosukenesalabizoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0763/7661/files/63055794840.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0970/9976/files/jikapu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0587/8173/files/baloncesto_en_silla_de_ruedas_reglamento.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8673/files/bolofakulokinapurapilod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5746/3971/files/kozifumivisirufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5174/5442/files/mokebonufozawubituv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6012/4061/files/xofupep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0860/4829/files/fozomowimupe.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000535a.bin
6b131e3d8ad1a1aa67809438470f05a70efef03594f5f9a4069a168000b2b162
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x535A 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000661b.bin
41157bf76deb048dd7fc8c69882cdc8ab357ad89003002bbd245993be281c453
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x661B 9736 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000875a.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x875A 4324 bytes