Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92ec1ebdc72fece3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 12:47:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 34abb1fec26ae789fbc5f58798a4a132 SHA-1: 5a2d726a84b9639c5f2224c75ec751d248aae1e3 SHA-256: 92ec1ebdc72fece3a3b3131412fbe50647a2ed35f81d866e061a6a711fbba0a7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a significant number of embedded links. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=br%25C3%25BCche+vergleichen+klasse+6+%25C3%25BCbungen+pdf', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through a large number of seemingly benign links.

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=br%25C3%25BCche+vergleichen+klasse+6+%25C3%25BCbungen+pdf
    • http://files.scottkaplanphd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483110/3705741.pdf
    • http://files.cninc.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740479/5324237.pdf
    • http://files.simamartialarts.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681053/rigozipu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1543/7468/files/mavomumitaforal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5345/7320/files/jumixatobew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0203/5351/files/zozusuniwavaxiles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/rpg_maker_mv_sprite_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4842/6902/files/89945692056.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1596/9688/files/60460205672.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0805/5720/files/survey._foreseeresults._com_sprouts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7251/1386/files/35094366137.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0867/1394/files/bogapedoreru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1908/2651/files/5427166460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8544/7833/files/85658891972.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_off000064a1.bin
bda220eac524829e72c98b38a63b7a8489ebf9663204c114aae24f766cff2a0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64A1 6004 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078d9.bin
2805c0c1800a621dbe9d07727c674bc61221d053d31a41fdb1548bd26d699fa1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78D9 11436 bytes