Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38ee70e7cc332464…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 10:10:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 09b92c9f38257496aa07ec58ba6e002f SHA-1: dc6cc5020cb143a7cc563c010b8b9c6523c102ad SHA-256: 38ee70e7cc332464591bbd063e11081da49f35dda51d4dea9a441d144cd42acf
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bobbin+lace+patterns+pdf, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of a large link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through seemingly benign documents. 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=bobbin+lace+patterns+pdf
    • http://files.saltysirentradingco.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739951/7102795.pdf
    • http://files.jonathanmitchell.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381900/6138922.pdf
    • http://files.kinesiologyandcounselling.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775786/jufile-tomij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2380/9187/files/36665251747.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3529/9738/files/blackstone_real_estate_fund.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7777/7061/files/apes_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9432/6949/files/11253987654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2044/3045/files/89159389676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5792/9623/files/final_fantasy_14_act.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84302935330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5106/5243/files/67928719068.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8191/5798/files/jaxuxetebexurata.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0917/0856/files/50562731522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8115/2152/files/leetcode_number_of_islands.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3385/4101/files/45941814604.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_off000072d4.bin
2f6158aad7f128819e57febc8d9952cab8b37ab86e3ebc5f0c4caeffc8181070
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72D4 5336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008504.bin
6f162f45d914a18edebdd65a8b2daa21f5bbd3879c0519b9823e189c632c18ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8504 11080 bytes