Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcbf0035567cb289…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 01:38:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 27dfb460175646d9438c9b38a55dcf29 SHA-1: 5caffa41dbd7b2bd873705c540f03529055b758d SHA-256: bcbf0035567cb289e427f2b66026a49b51543475f6ab66d946b5d4288f10f362
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=factoring+trinomials+a+not+1+worksheet+pdf, which is part of a larger SEO link farm strategy. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=factoring+trinomials+a+not+1+worksheet+pdf
    • http://mikos.midnight-farm.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380005/7726636.pdf
    • http://files.valetridents.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814534/14239dd1d13d9.pdf
    • http://files.livetosparkleblingboutique.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813320/8af898c14af.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8837/9032/files/rabolupogijowejo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0313/9480/files/61817270598.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4347/1003/files/20132428028.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8797/0975/files/warenesipoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7375/7603/files/compress_bitmap_android_programmatically.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/7938/6534/files/nvidia_jetson_tx2_data_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/luvibuxunefipefijuli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9861/9557/files/sataxobosewutobepoje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6985/7176/files/ketupid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1604/5222/files/lagu_nineball_akulah_serigala_wapka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3328/8088/files/34884462871.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_off000060df.bin
a402d8535014ee5c5faa86f058936360698730b0b3228bc00dabc6946a7bbb99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60DF 5732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007448.bin
e99b3ae3fda04e6dfb9f64c04c67368d008ec9560b4664c56b03d7475980ddef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7448 10132 bytes