Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44195db91d540764…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-26 22:13:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0abe59c774e71ac82adfa72224629e22 SHA-1: 569d6de039789a3f44369256c0c70bd3745faeca SHA-256: 44195db91d540764821c3c26bf716d56c521a005cbf33a725accb088ee36d503
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=physics+project+for+class+12+cbse+pdf', which is a critical indicator of malicious redirection. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to game search engines or distribute malicious 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.cc/pify?keyword=physics+project+for+class+12+cbse+pdf
    • http://fazabuxix.holistipet.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437812/1716200.pdf
    • http://files.recenterpress.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775848/1893177.pdf
    • http://files.coltonweiss.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/timuvarak-vukag-rixil.pdf
    • http://vakagu.harmonieconcertband.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/ccad6973.pdf
    • http://gazeberop.officialmilag.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/f5792061aa1cb0d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3499/9975/files/4888646863.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4224/2709/files/avm_malformation_uterus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9208/0795/files/89041169764.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/0690/2691/files/xarurow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9845/4682/files/mokavujevuviwezotagose.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3358/2998/files/zopuzigazinupa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8575/6568/files/behringer_um2_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5682/4471/files/ximalutapodinijuvaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/8495/1207/files/wawelidubonitovorarakobix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vinujavezo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8851/9080/files/26272355673.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_off00005e7b.bin
b917bcbc2352ce282d90e476aa40ae7293184a63071cd2330a2ff9f5644f83c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E7B 5748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071fe.bin
b1692462015977e346c5be41cc0923bc8246e5156a0ab6bd376b4a6567b078f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71FE 10180 bytes