Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6569dbf03273b65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 19:12:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 33f28e020806008817050deadbd9f537 SHA-1: 480ec21c063a2df5454a65b95dfec3bad6cee8b9 SHA-256: a6569dbf03273b65adb16348c9213ca740b17babd77ece539ef0edee7f9fbdb1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=v%25C3%25ADrus+e+bact%25C3%25A9rias+resumo+pdf. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to 'Virus and bacteria' to encourage clicks. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=v%25C3%25ADrus+e+bact%25C3%25A9rias+resumo+pdf
    • http://files.academyatrattlesnakepoint.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738943/6351380.pdf
    • http://megotebek.questgolfacademy.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/4761851.pdf
    • http://files.bdooutlet.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695601/savotenejowikosukop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3439/5295/files/1670556240.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4070/0578/files/78278259848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2285/9943/files/kanodowunitimalusaje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6175/5560/files/32192900095.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6421/4182/files/bipeludedo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2930/7293/files/wukate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5208/1053/files/lefesaretefakipazeja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4950/8246/files/88946681892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8777/4367/files/zisufujuxabufes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8488/9758/files/4139813172.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9387/6118/files/15059570726.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_off00007b1c.bin
301b8a217e27485797cecbd61a495fcb0a3b47e71651375878dafe792a8ca0d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B1C 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008db1.bin
e360e65dd4ecf5e5d83225d6763755c810cfc8a561f4351d93056bd45aa8a078
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DB1 12424 bytes