Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83206eb2284a5567…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 23:17:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 39177908fec83843c4452d128d0f02b8 SHA-1: 6f4774b2d460356a00e5f19aed74c87e1f2541f6 SHA-256: 83206eb2284a5567b9754ecd011c3e9755e445adafe9413b74e25f93bc3202ed
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=buss+it+down+mp4. While the document body is heavily obfuscated, the presence of numerous links, including a link farm, suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites. 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=buss+it+down+mp4
    • http://files.lyndolkeith.info/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483147/zolavepibawova.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3321/5644/files/telosadekoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7909/7758/files/energias_renovables_en_el_mundo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0316/6372/files/18440798758.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0591/9903/files/11889020470.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5797/0329/files/63238744631.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8838/files/zafedixebutavodeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8838/files/english_language_proficiency_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6601/3349/files/dialectical_behaviour_therapy_techniques.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nozawilod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1910/6461/files/playing_god_paramore.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000043a6.bin
2fa22705e932a5d49df192bc7fb8a005e7ef4bc466a526cd9d76016e4c8de98e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x43A6 4760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000053d3.bin
773cb53661c6b76c871d169b0104cdbd6c711de583362a4226696508ac7ce850
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53D3 11492 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007943.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7943 4324 bytes