Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b6fc8be4e4c0232…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.1 KB Created: 2020-08-25 05:48:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2b084e7831dc43e333eb2c64869c25a6 SHA-1: 5fcd32d9c18c7ee75a60e162192389e811a58a58 SHA-256: 4b6fc8be4e4c02323db14798286c678442a47b1a044a342b583b06f0a95a8e5c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=angry+birds+java+mobile+game+free'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility and traffic to the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the malicious link is clearly present.

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=angry+birds+java+mobile+game+free
    • http://begime.biglittlebrains.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/jogixa.pdf
    • http://files.andreakantrowitz.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856987/b8a266fe2.pdf
    • http://tonizaji.hmrpncc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/gikigutesivaf-mewete-melovosemaze.pdf
    • http://files.madaassoc.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606094/dda01edd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5788/0996/files/79980795718.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5556/2398/files/dajazizurep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2029/5064/files/bad_bunny_wallpaper.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8103/1064/files/taxixigumiwazakefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6678/5949/files/42270598487.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5095/1066/files/vemezodawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4396/0485/files/cardiologia_clinica_guadalajara.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0432/files/53634042847.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3186/3202/files/29192668398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2579/9067/files/boxokamalagobixitogiw.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_off000047ea.bin
32d4d6d7b5420e4edc27f97cb43e21c35c6d716d8adecb726cfd3034a34dacb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47EA 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ae5.bin
2d48dd09204921070954d8aedfb0e12b46e32b535c35ad741fb643101250437e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AE5 10828 bytes