Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2a1d8354fdc8033…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 19:49:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bd66365ebf2edefd6a23c2e9c79188b0 SHA-1: 0fb18f64d6b489fcfe54e1a4adf57ef7722fe6e5 SHA-256: b2a1d8354fdc8033b9c416c933c5ba4959f0e8d8af573ef382f70b09a91035a2
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to academic performance and the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious link farm. The primary intent appears to be directing users to potentially harmful websites.

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=factors+influencing+academic+performance+of+students+pdf
    • http://files.businessmanagementib.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969985/pivurewi.pdf
    • http://files.brightchildcdc.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070144/4246151.pdf
    • http://files.americanpolicenews.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814147/japemebebogotis.pdf
    • http://files.thetruthstandsforever.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815437/vubapatemumojuva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7511/6961/files/47318277067.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2576/7320/files/59092179664.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2430/2759/files/vopivoletigip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8122/7672/files/jagatujafajurasigimo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0421/4942/files/nukorejivolefomuzalimezu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97428896976.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5306/9974/files/pdf_acrobat_x_pro_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3476/2654/files/gimegalikusitiwotorofa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3416/4893/files/rujuderutotigasonafo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sesolofulazige.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8917/4432/files/wufaxovo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4300/4322/files/4229190248.pdf
    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/alamosbasement/
    • 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_off00006279.bin
73d68dccc52f6b8015894231493b81322cbb75376037b969786222613eafcaaf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6279 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074d9.bin
a984baf15621b6ef8fd2a1a205dc3cccd4b369ef2091dea5eb80b3a0f97ee74a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74D9 9804 bytes