Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a02fc8926e61c37d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 23:51:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c8a9aa8b0ba9a65d23b0942e85f4a675 SHA-1: f6dd0bd18fb96c593ccefc04efaa5e9d7fd22b3f SHA-256: a02fc8926e61c37d7b808fc7cc6798b4f593c49943787ea2c7550d424cf619b7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to SEO-optimize malicious content, directing users to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=how+to+use+pdf+3d+viewer', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on seemingly benign platforms like Shopify but likely part of a larger distribution network, further supports the malicious intent. 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=how+to+use+pdf+3d+viewer
    • http://files.juliechibbaro.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452944/a3fd3e28201a.pdf
    • http://files.standardtimewatchrepair.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775506/goxop-xunenopidi.pdf
    • http://duxunep.idahoretrieverclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637316/579827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8558/5820/files/bioassay_procedure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7343/7847/files/bmw_branding_strategy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0539/3570/files/zinigajabazijujirenijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1149/7366/files/23592225016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2030/3011/files/68863040581.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3486/9921/files/96182758362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7351/9269/files/sagurepenetolewonojelutu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4589/4816/files/21295152816.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1898/5370/files/evermotion_archinteriors_vol_43.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9280/3744/files/arabic_language_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/26279171350.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6664/9750/files/minecraft_crash_log.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_off00006486.bin
cdc11159e608c0c8f0abdead3811bbc5142f1ef92fd7cc687e01be306aeb32c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6486 5072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075f3.bin
acda953bc9cc72b1cad8e80ce66b5463d2150de0073e76353312095933d0c309
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75F3 10052 bytes