Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b957f8b9d0b6602…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 19:53:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1c07520998dd7bfcf9a899791ed919f7 SHA-1: cadb03dd1c2fbbe993d3d4da2c636435f1185717 SHA-256: 3b957f8b9d0b6602b829929e85e5ffa827ac0134358580498c2dc725f3fe93b0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=web+templates+html5+css3+free'. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. 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=web+templates+html5+css3+free
    • http://files.churchofhenniker.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438639/9685456.pdf
    • http://texugaja.integrativewellnessofct.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681393/7704407.pdf
    • http://files.isleofhopesteam.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815009/xagolub.pdf
    • http://files.pollymeyrick.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070302/33f70e4.pdf
    • http://files.puetzerlab.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695438/e35e22afb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8612/4958/files/utility_function_economics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3550/0439/files/20766994169.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4832/1692/files/rovefu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8924/8924/files/dovomuxaxivapa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/2708/3943/files/99028484426.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9928/2845/files/22245849768.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4151/2855/files/calendario_2019_novembro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9456/3221/files/jinakixirudefezi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4786/9850/files/nutakosilizisa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5840/5275/files/65177382907.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_off00016ad2.bin
7d79c39cca2328fe79eec30f4ecc21790da240553447205cf0dabbe81f6a1f20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AD2 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00017c94.bin
351f39908b962ebe189d66f64e9833dc9a36eaf9d0b8e00169add559b5589fb1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C94 10260 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00019f9c.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F9C 4324 bytes