Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b599980f864e605a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 05:09:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10e7eb4fbf6c068e686c401de24665f2 SHA-1: 40278cf271fb0ef54df3d5f364708f11ea549a71 SHA-256: b599980f864e605a59787ab210ce930192e49e59c72d507e7aa719b5d3ab3a5c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, includes the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=github+readme+image+size', suggesting a lure related to GitHub image sizes. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector attack pattern.

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=github+readme+image+size
    • http://files.kristibridgeman.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379183/b9909c.pdf
    • http://files.theqrnetwork.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969680/feriguxezowega.pdf
    • http://files.elevatednaturalhealth.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856987/feket.pdf
    • http://files.marisamartinezmarquez.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739011/1128787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2757/0596/files/88521998714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5465/1799/files/78761839448.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/24532208883.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1403/7397/files/tuzerudisem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3656/3866/files/2001_dodge_ram_2500_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6371/2671/files/dedidutonevojirutix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2537/5130/files/36676118324.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5752/1574/files/31477527799.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8286/6072/files/jewazoluvedexules.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6148/6503/files/31079994012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lebalod.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_off000062f6.bin
680b1f2212b60b4f07c7f5facdaa17ddd64a4ec67ed477f45d851059e2824697
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62F6 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007541.bin
09fa9b85bb62d7eb8e2b7d96686a5a85554809ae27668932c2dd677a8c1a873c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7541 11032 bytes