Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 801ef8a2df2582c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 04:41:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee5139ebab97ec08fc5391febe51e585 SHA-1: 0a7b08f08f4fcb7a5de2a716d4271052b28e2d33 SHA-256: 801ef8a2df2582c9d0c2a751af54ea89b11a1be008e267b6a5f49b2d8614bed5
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, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=spectrum+math+grade+6+answers', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking on malicious links under the guise of finding educational materials. 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=spectrum+math+grade+6+answers
    • http://rorobow.brittanyrediger.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455463/55f983eee5d5724.pdf
    • http://files.freshsenses.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438055/4188298.pdf
    • http://fepuwivon.ayusewingproject.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454526/9890535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8060/5077/files/autocad_lisp_commands.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8868/2915/files/dolumukazojavabeni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3765/5193/files/zijozenojenodibefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2452/2143/files/capitulation_surrender.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8904/3362/files/liduruzurowolarado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1396/2919/files/properties_of_genetic_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3957/9546/files/42544729091.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8233/3856/files/gaxinapemijovoxibamoliba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8883/0873/files/basic_thermodynamics_interview_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2141/7122/files/arching_effect_of_brick_bonding.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1186/4738/files/155_cdta_bus_schedule.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_off00004973.bin
a747075e5e23526eead7be3ce202f4316e10f0355c441134f4719907572a981e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4973 5804 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d1f.bin
ed5be8d36864f6f82749ac25ad97e3e11a4c5f3863c26ec7df0158fac4ff01d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D1F 9352 bytes