Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9864032c4864e673…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-04 00:57:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 31c1a2d883ac06ce0af30b7f18e316c1 SHA-1: 7261aebd1e24e37a51fc7604f079979e8ccd2151 SHA-256: 9864032c4864e6730c0f9ccf9a71c4279945a01b2c753404cbc3c49260561090
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a document about 'microbiology culture techniques pdf'. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive document, leading to a malicious redirector.

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=microbiology+culture+techniques+pdf
    • http://files.stalwartarms.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607163/pepiroxolorobe.pdf
    • http://files.moldandwaterdamagespecialistinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408170/4551431.pdf
    • http://files.melissacoaching.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775537/mimoge-ruwupedipiviv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1461/8277/files/63863572654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8312/8214/files/womixaxesixa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0686/0187/files/tifemubolomajabewowese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1311/9905/files/kiwomozokiguk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1117/7626/files/7848263877.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0831/9907/files/nekejefiwumizena.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/40369191557.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0724/4450/files/pomomuzisi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0696/6429/files/33788988451.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9643/files/32679941112.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8424/2337/files/lugudulud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2177/0656/files/3971710713.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2100/1119/files/41252414583.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_off00007cd7.bin
0229a42acc647d1b5c4960f565f6953808c5a1b36598c92f6b36968a207b373c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CD7 5580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008fcf.bin
4a13b67765611182892818bd62cf491c93ac82b15c65c3d44adcbf4330daf9cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FCF 10032 bytes