Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aef9bc27c73d6e4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-01 20:19:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 252da90432f6b641a2e5c9ee77990069 SHA-1: 67f1c0b4089b2c80eb591c6499b49cc7e070622d SHA-256: aef9bc27c73d6e4e0f830f54d050d94737e7d6b4115e2a57258effd0388d215d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=optimal+binary+search+tree', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure 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=optimal+binary+search+tree
    • http://files.mightyscholarspreschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384185/guzawubazoteb.pdf
    • http://files.streetbridgeinn.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712623/7478221.pdf
    • http://files.cheekycanvas.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398094/lebumu_zurefarom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2307/2412/files/8980202516.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4119/3110/files/37492045468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/xefigijor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9318/1095/files/bapirekaxejazi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8136/7712/files/wendy_kirkland.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0717/9941/files/gta_5_ps4_preowned.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8347/2791/files/gedefafipu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2361/3595/files/94164357263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8188/4067/files/6720462445.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3914/6662/files/84180288432.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9453/1484/files/64914830813.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1362/7294/files/46805636181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3662/2498/files/wavekatubogilutitiva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9725/8136/files/90473915694.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_off00006e9a.bin
2d8368f43872837654169ae5dd7c7a73acfc07f8721b72c724eda6612bb9e6e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E9A 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080e7.bin
8502bbb70507633fe2c376f19e02313d0ae2e530712750bdb906261089abae77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80E7 10192 bytes