Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c904844f1d3592f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-08-25 11:40:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 334a5ed8af0cbafaf8895c8b9916dab2 SHA-1: 859501f0514ebba73222f14c7b41cd094aff1f44 SHA-256: 2c904844f1d3592fff99b7310cecf96449f6856ec8d3d0a17175b2f236b619b6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains numerous embedded URLs, including a primary link to a redirector service at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=joined+up+handwriting+worksheets+ks1'. This suggests the document is part of an SEO spam or phishing campaign designed to drive traffic 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=joined+up+handwriting+worksheets+ks1
    • http://faxeroj.jidesigners.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739845/1811481.pdf
    • http://files.trendytutusbylauren.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683014/rafesive.pdf
    • http://files.jo-edwards.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408432/dekatadixelanu_kebamewuted_zipuravonalepif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5906/9599/files/master_chief_helmet_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5314/6517/files/bourbaki_a_secret_society_of_mathematicians.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5453/0709/files/root_android_phone_without_pc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9171/2405/files/jezebiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0708/0608/files/map_in_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6300/8664/files/32012329987.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5086/9671/files/kofitipelo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/1204/6230/files/lojaxalekukafodinomiwur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3145/3081/files/bazowonuzovozatav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/65069223210.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2465/4241/files/nukuvuka.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_off00005627.bin
95fe21341c25e8cffd0ae058fe9df4470d4704a502d58ec3b069e81bfc9c267f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5627 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006884.bin
739299a3f6f01211ed3c7d5076795751f471ae744d5fd9f5378a9702755a6037
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6884 9948 bytes