Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39b18073c2d79f5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 14:14:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 14d9391efe7727bcc5f08c9d94f9e3b3 SHA-1: 2951797ab7beb7e381af65e722c9d39ccb21f382 SHA-256: 39b18073c2d79f5b2b81ad0a8762d9545afdf56661fc54cfa38dbc9b880274e5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=argentine+crisis+2020+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links pointing to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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=argentine+crisis+2020+pdf
    • http://files.christiestimber.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302815/a80bec9c772bc.pdf
    • http://files.5starreflections.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814032/kepegepadezem_gaxeg_jideroru_dawimoz.pdf
    • http://files.longrangeacademy.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712306/d97286f6caef8.pdf
    • http://files.emugs.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695519/a04b87d4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2013/2257/files/jirenarur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6681/4617/files/historia_de_la_administracion_publica_en_mexico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9266/3702/files/59060341039.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8530/6782/files/86918307703.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7602/5497/files/nenozuxesebidubenudidur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6263/2360/files/29111131735.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4578/1658/files/88555740499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/3462/8516/files/play_audio_from_stream_js.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0885/2117/files/25097742742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0219/1269/files/57629851567.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3847/files/93197557071.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8283/2280/files/calvinismo_kuyper.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_off0000725a.bin
5a878e89a4500893f1664e50e4a0d5ef3a47c002824b962bb22b062537d1c148
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x725A 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000084ad.bin
e28116808307377b959f1fe157aa06ee8eb74638ef74f0378dbfa98d2a5beb4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84AD 10144 bytes