Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5b9d4b514da77de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-22 15:29:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e44b7790c0dfe90103e153b4448e98b8 SHA-1: 2e83fd77b20c7d623aa05fe9a1cea961eb4c1be1 SHA-256: a5b9d4b514da77defed0287d7cffb1e8538d1d5b8d31f5e99a63b106d40fb308
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=d%25C3%25A9finition+de+transformation+chimique'. Another critical heuristic indicates this is a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. The document body is heavily obfuscated but contains the redirector URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

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=d%25C3%25A9finition+de+transformation+chimique
    • http://jurinuvu.jpwillson.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406062/6088845.pdf
    • http://files.giftednassau.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775506/vedikor-refopusugijazav-nukar-ketunarogob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7958/2374/files/mulimesagez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5216/3481/files/89574019093.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1980/4567/files/kuby_immunology_6th_edition_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6273/files/lekitumibonokug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7188/7767/files/anesthesia_machine_mindray.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9232/8102/files/flight_sound_effects_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2457/9736/files/greek_alphabet_download.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000071b8.bin
eac172b6369e989a3d0a8e8f996ae5b8baf13dbb74c6493de27d562413d21bf1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71B8 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000838f.bin
48864a41111ecfba99dab75f52bebe2222c5bd9e889ac8cc6119dccd5ee8c976
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x838F 11992 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a9b1.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9B1 4324 bytes