Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6dcd43824d4a374…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 16:00:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e7d793cfb6de65fc04f188bfef60d53b SHA-1: dc9003457ea6b6cfef79748701552f5fbfc6c55f SHA-256: b6dcd43824d4a3742d67020359c5ef50a873a7a177d46819d98585a1fdffdb58
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=alfred+s+basic+piano+library+scales+chords+arpeggios+and+cadences+pdf, which is likely used to lure victims into downloading further malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing its malicious intent. The presence of numerous other PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic.

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=alfred+s+basic+piano+library+scales+chords+arpeggios+and+cadences+pdf
    • http://files.sherileegray.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680932/muvikox.pdf
    • http://files.hfpnaz.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164239/gorawatolanu.pdf
    • http://files.btmuth.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738799/kexovimok-bokafuki.pdf
    • http://files.thebottlelady.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383467/mijatebiwiwu-xedufisamajupos-bomezuvexodaju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2784/7576/files/fagefidedosewikap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8068/6495/files/management_accounting_multiple_choice_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7484/5858/files/bitzer_compressor_service_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0568/9499/files/23339517622.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8584/files/bcg_matrix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3504/0664/files/80384124912.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6954/7431/files/komob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5918/2745/files/wavomi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8499/7025/files/14913980673.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8853/files/ingersoll_rand_air_compressors_manual.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_off0000561a.bin
f74d42acf7f59ca7471198712c81f2d9caa71e22dd44bb423ce6f4febbede9b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x561A 5648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006954.bin
a6d423257c974ff73c3b343d264836296486fea5aa764c71ce773228f6bee16a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6954 10384 bytes