Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23b9f70d692ceae0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.7 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:29:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 26a2728bcac2e1b50fe1b1df218b3b8f SHA-1: 9a6dee8399176f5fc6486d3a6fdcdc496057256b SHA-256: 23b9f70d692ceae0c627e8cfc5139f05fe022bdb6f7490500d3e4814e3af643b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a PDF link farm, pointing to various external resources. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=endocrine+system+in+insects+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. This suggests the PDF is used to drive traffic to potentially malicious or spam-related websites.

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=endocrine+system+in+insects+pdf
    • http://files.biblebasics.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069879/8184137.pdf
    • http://files.heroandprincessparties.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775245/024e6861da.pdf
    • http://zazip.palouserivercounseling.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384635/2155726.pdf
    • http://ritufa.rowanandco.shop/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606263/7c62a.pdf
    • http://files.inwrought.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453198/zelefilagiku_petafal_kazexifojufoz_majumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8564/3419/files/semujesutuzunarolupemawa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4782/1212/files/ruguz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7198/9918/files/cardiogenic_pulmonary_edema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/9278/files/70429436426.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9359/9132/files/21317427868.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0958/6853/files/wikutede.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/liwisubusamepumiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2728/9496/files/63670980213.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7546/0517/files/32945912091.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9971/6770/files/karugapiwasaposifun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2553/6936/files/retinopatia_diabetica_unam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1057/7816/files/tiparivulatofokorino.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_off0000a1a7.bin
2c6111386cdf07ae6e8c71f21818cf1647a4ee6d6ab7cf9ebe0f78202e7d9169
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1A7 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b309.bin
5c92dff2c0ad5cff1c43c87a8009144b8046d75152a040839e744ebc3d486afb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB309 10280 bytes