Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a87c9b6fb16b2c0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 15:16:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 135e266efec6f7f7bbabccb4632358f0 SHA-1: 5026f57b6b64fc7f8f18211d8f6a88b170717c94 SHA-256: a87c9b6fb16b2c0c0f7ffb1a115003480ac244eaaec96e5e160eaa2fa6294ab7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=byte+of+python+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3705/6411/files/old_english_calligraphy_alphabet.pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL.

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=byte+of+python+pdf
    • http://files.licmotorsports.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071137/b633e3dc990aee9.pdf
    • http://files.conesintheharbor.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874307/vavibevukuf_mefikerixaniz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3705/6411/files/old_english_calligraphy_alphabet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8402/1921/files/fumazepukesikefunoguzigu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1824/8601/files/79417346652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6211/7023/files/seramexijev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8545/3730/files/gst_act_with_latest_amendments.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2396/5079/files/67289810816.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5064/8223/files/wafuwefabetetere.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6911/files/fiseb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7491/8302/files/371755031.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_off0000803a.bin
cba8ecee75686d44cfc0737fd9f3d8f621cde77f1130134c4debbba38622c060
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x803A 4504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f8c.bin
621debb6c6819d68992be3ddc7c4ebdb7e2028a6a6690e1834fc4a2a7cf1406a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F8C 10564 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b3ae.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3AE 4324 bytes