Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 521b2fe81b4473f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 06:52:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 327553316655c5d35d1fcb4b2933c148 SHA-1: 412581b8db24bd20e65896f8d530d9e06fc492bf SHA-256: 521b2fe81b4473f5c50780faa4f5b2249fd1c41b66f236191c3595961560b2c3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning model as malicious and contains numerous embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=test+for+sulfate+ions+chemguide', which is also listed as a malicious redirector. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute traffic to malicious sites.

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=test+for+sulfate+ions+chemguide
    • http://zibiwug.qualityfoodvi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739626/1092803.pdf
    • http://files.positiveposturenz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483550/sivaf_polatafi_zuwovil.pdf
    • http://fupij.apologeticsinthechurch.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/4569810.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6701/5322/files/lavav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4619/7653/files/fasopali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9802/9733/files/harvard_citation_style_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7251/4206/files/business_vocabulary_in_use_elementary_to_pre_intermediate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2342/3912/files/kuzujafi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0293/4942/files/52281123681.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0344/3361/files/zixevegimobimuxixuxujuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5335/0053/files/carnatic_music_notes_in_kannada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1645/3272/files/vusobomesotu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9866/9220/files/gaxinesotureniserorabox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3628/6877/files/93704691769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1161/6418/files/pdf_architect_2._0.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_off000138f4.bin
7e5fca049e461f316cc7a73b0eb14c3dfdee5db9d250a313d9afe0cb30bf69b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138F4 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014b12.bin
d4e60af50c730cf28586e827eadc48dd8f9451cf4e5a4e97a991faa10a496a3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B12 14372 bytes