Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8914cad26d4f58e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 22:17:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0744991784074459c7716048463d286b SHA-1: f7ed8e86516c0e1e7b66f0c990eaa98ddc3028b4 SHA-256: a8914cad26d4f58e071221de080f580a1522bf98d1a88480311c13fc87ca590c
150 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 PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=j%25C4%2599zyk+angielski+dla+pocz%25C4%2585tkuj%25C4%2585cych+irena+dobrzycka+bronis%25C5%2582aw+kopczy%25C5%2584ski+pdf. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains what appears to be a lure related to an English language learning PDF, aiming to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=j%25C4%2599zyk+angielski+dla+pocz%25C4%2585tkuj%25C4%2585cych+irena+dobrzycka+bronis%25C5%2582aw+kopczy%25C5%2584ski+pdf
    • http://files.stationsurfshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380616/d101c.pdf
    • http://files.prahranrg.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380951/zojixi-firolonof-gojux.pdf
    • http://files.cliffordstearns.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814115/sudiwoxevigik_xomanebub_gobufukid_zudaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nulanevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/50306279194.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1642/7419/files/801884392.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4089/7174/files/53470896845.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6106/7428/files/resistance_to_beta_lactam_antibiotics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6177/2442/files/91257248928.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2508/8168/files/maharashtra_budget_2020_in_marathi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0513/2456/files/diramosuzofuwipaki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7141/5196/files/merge_online_free_without_email.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0124/9955/files/raxurazabubolopadetafekib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7199/5030/files/61749833484.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3550/0439/files/jovabivovipaxonivutazedul.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_off00005398.bin
a8599dc34c65a1b9b522d7c6020c0f10900d26c611a77a09d12dd5c9473d1755
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5398 6568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000068d9.bin
f006574fa20a53a114ae1491964f68c79e256b329f734b7d7c7fcc20c9cdd901
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68D9 10676 bytes