Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9abd05019e83161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-22 01:56:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f3dd8360bb3da3353d9276981037ded8 SHA-1: b4df9c2b92a77452a05005dc2952636303d2beeb SHA-256: a9abd05019e831610d8c40d0080d09d68d99afe3a92645f90bd11f901622c142
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=notification+priority+android+pie'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references to 'notification priority android pie', suggesting a lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector points to a phishing or scam campaign designed to lead users to malicious sites.

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=notification+priority+android+pie
    • http://bojopaton.bavardmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775982/tisuzuwogi.pdf
    • http://files.dancesbyisadora.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164324/kipexilujuwipak-rubok-kagiva-kilaledobifavuf.pdf
    • http://files.erinsmithlac.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383575/botutogavo.pdf
    • http://vivaku.walkingthewheel.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482962/4107900.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2508/9191/files/gikoxoziwapun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9603/9839/files/sunakuwujikugiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1568/3743/files/hyundai_accent_wiring_diagram.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7954/1671/files/xevusenukasolipejowarep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3623/8236/files/alderbrook_school_6th_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7023/4524/files/kujowiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9038/5821/files/59832482676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1895/6448/files/office_2016_product_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0577/1927/files/colocar_assinatura_digital_no.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9183/6566/files/patterns_of_enterprise_application_architecture_filetype.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_off000089f3.bin
e812e940b2cf2f92029bf178afcb1ae2f67918aa516b4d3927d90da4442e3c20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89F3 5008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009b13.bin
dbcad00d2387f8bbab615a8abeb95130710b9d1c45a4ca9700830e7f38704a55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B13 9980 bytes