Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b45177ea665b9437…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-07-25 13:19:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e3eee39c49c3881529b19c7654524e73 SHA-1: eabfa5999fd5f2ade50caa450c7d2ceaf2fe4f52 SHA-256: b45177ea665b9437433cd6004748143578bef7ec7812239df93baf6a185c4fa8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=answer+me+my+love+lyrics, which appears to be a redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous links suggests a lure to external malicious content, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

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=answer+me+my+love+lyrics
    • http://files.xavierlecouturiermusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406701/ea22f.pdf
    • http://files.ananuno.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438501/533909.pdf
    • http://files.oui.sg/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874266/jefiviberevuginivim.pdf
    • http://files.dunchideock.org.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607027/782b2861.pdf
    • http://files.oui.sg/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1708/3803/files/53244586559.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/70278744099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fadanamimurusekebunom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vemuvuferakodumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4200/4375/files/wesegajujo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6237/0210/files/85403329975.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5827/4205/files/58236058632.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3588/files/navizuriromikofade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2977/3979/files/wipetixutorofofawivibig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3425/5265/files/13680034116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6418/8312/files/16547358147.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_off000065cb.bin
fbe44fefad00b2875d073bb7422aec20973a65eadaffc731661d8db7f6a639e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65CB 4684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000759e.bin
3b66c7b6a5ff746ca51d88c130e71cdfa48767ae7b06907028bd365942969743
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x759E 10408 bytes