Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81d9d7a26bfd9bfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.5 KB Created: 2020-07-07 12:15:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c8b593ad6874bade19eb6904f99e6ddb SHA-1: 7edac610f00e8f2a0353a09dfe9e32211ec677ac SHA-256: 81d9d7a26bfd9bfa4ac11b0aab3dbe560022b3df5e66295ab559c9818d02945d
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. Crucially, it includes a 'Clipboard command execution lure', instructing the user to copy and paste content into a shell, which is a common technique for downloading and executing second-stage malware. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=molecular%20classification%20of%20fungi%20pdf#molecular+classification+of+fungi+pdf' is also flagged as malicious redirector infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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/wb?keyword=molecular%20classification%20of%20fungi%20pdf#molecular+classification+of+fungi+pdf
    • http://files.kingsporthorses.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383553/1742861.pdf
    • http://files.portageresourceguide.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606644/8719065.pdf
    • http://files.tenayaspeaks.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607239/5740736.pdf
    • http://files.sjuartdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606087/wulixakitanajukaf.pdf
    • http://files.pdxprays.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383018/wikixawasagi.pdf
    • http://files.arlingtonmsband.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606087/ddee7.pdf
    • http://files.mindfulserenityonline.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874629/pezozulaleku.pdf
    • http://files.opunakesurflifesaving.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814513/gezitowejukejekojuko.pdf
    • http://files.jancancan.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406413/sosazidisajawaj-ledosol-vaxodavuv-ziwobedomanefon.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://zibasog.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/pirekuzelerog.pdf
    • https://mikurisem.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/76062359247.pdf
    • https://folowajiwuv.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/gizolonifaseso.pdf
    • https://nikadafit.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/5509432681.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001a011.bin
dd682fb8db41f7cb12537209ce5c83d473b3a9ca1e9c5023406319b2858f148f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A011 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001b1dc.bin
6a50ab7fe7d75eade565400821488fdeddb7ba469b9a3b2728864f3bc891f53d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B1DC 15264 bytes