Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bb2bc11c2fe311c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 18:56:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 09d9332d7c30c7fa4f81605224b7394a SHA-1: d26265ab0d19a215f72c553914b8e53b943bc9a6 SHA-256: 3bb2bc11c2fe311cd249b5ceff0192af8852fd4980b035eff45c2cfde47b0c9d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=nelson+english+language+test+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=nelson+english+language+test+pdf
    • http://files.jdunbarportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681464/8376252.pdf
    • http://files.edfwarbirds.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681513/jusowuduzi_mudila.pdf
    • http://files.tanditech.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683040/femozadazof_rubeguwamijapu_vumitulu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7964/7903/files/28895343490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2564/4192/files/58732135807.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2160/6817/files/quicken_loans_arena_seating_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6370/4729/files/28848559248.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1220/9315/files/96095210616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6588/4323/files/dijebibadufax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2723/2918/files/cfop_method.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9431/7981/files/76939497707.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8765/0211/files/dulejatavuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9567/7346/files/ultimate_warrior_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4769/0145/files/tejoteparepazi.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_off00004203.bin
aa8acd36461561b86dc4575016308fc2e65e82b73ff83e26ccb1faba79faa63f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4203 5176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000053a7.bin
69ba36d35a0f240f1f03043eea5f62d7ea22f2b5cc397b106e0545e17ec886c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53A7 10492 bytes