Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbb9be85fcc7bf31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-28 10:23:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e08410ad26f31e5d56bacba1fdc859e4 SHA-1: f9c4d0ca9dc3c06b46400144e02fcd80c392d5b4 SHA-256: bbb9be85fcc7bf31cbc9d3d879843982e541fc6f9ab2e41d1dbb1188b9623c3f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious redirects. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=monarch+butterfly+life+cycle+lesson+plan'. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same URL and other PDF links, reinforcing the lure and redirection strategy.

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=monarch+butterfly+life+cycle+lesson+plan
    • http://files.johnirwinsonlinebusiness.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814980/3392290.pdf
    • http://loveta.chemicgear.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/zomuwuroli-geluvibefesig-sumapurivuzubad-rojajep.pdf
    • http://files.startsmarthayscaldwell.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969061/jaxifa.pdf
    • http://files.trinitydentalcentre.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874160/ravoxefesonof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4704/2715/files/o_mosteiro_agustina_bessa_luis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7470/6853/files/sejetaduzizuzuso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2621/7120/files/f2p_pking_osrs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8722/3198/files/73537416946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4105/3080/files/riwegajopugixi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/2810/6651/files/genki_second_edition_workbook_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7175/0823/files/19460129985.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9685/1111/files/pimumizozibo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3957/1616/files/50917522554.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_off000066ab.bin
06a55c1b355ced29c4453339d7fffc7d2b3442f55466b3d24d695b4d35abf65e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66AB 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078e1.bin
62d63564ab192e4d2c1910d54d53d71a575f9e12d0b68c3a970d0a87baa5cb94
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78E1 10292 bytes