Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a985aa33ac22d66e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 02:01:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d0f3f3e5c16ed09fbfa7193fef04fc5a SHA-1: 02fa6d8582804301ca1dcf561be4a16ec7ecde4a SHA-256: a985aa33ac22d66e7dafeb6cd819fb99357401ebf48bf2f444e6f6e27d7bb9cb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=crystal+ball+excel+2010++free`. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links pointing to various PDF files. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through a deceptive link.

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=crystal+ball+excel+2010++free
    • http://files.trenholmlab.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380848/pizowibeze.pdf
    • http://files.professorsilverblank.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776204/1a9c2.pdf
    • http://files.elementsbookscoffeebeer.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695576/zisajojofevowepesuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9911/9013/files/beaufort_county_school_uniform_colors.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9958/4664/files/nefubawimaguzadalela.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1234/1412/files/capuana_giacinta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3486/9921/files/phonetic_transcription_practice.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1538/6789/files/87539137141.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7563/3306/files/adoracion_al_santisimo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9790/6589/files/solid_waste_management_vtu_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1221/7241/files/sepawufigojewemabepoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/4684/5854/files/relasajixutizilupu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5122/1146/files/zefana.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_off00004525.bin
1286799975d5501931dcd6f8afd227d02d7faaf425c2acf417fd9461385d1021
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4525 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005679.bin
bd58b72bd496846b55bccc7a936f6afd723b53d19bbdc0bc1a29f481526bf74e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5679 9760 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000077eb.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77EB 4324 bytes