Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c01d2ccced75aa54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-27 14:02:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 26e8c2c5ca81e5dc9a4674523c96c1fc SHA-1: 56206a82924bb2547fafa317dbb59018f8b0903d SHA-256: c01d2ccced75aa5449d709724fc3a9674ce9773d6a4d2ea23f80de94995cb953
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 a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and other links that appear to be part of a link farm designed to improve search engine rankings for specific keywords, likely as a lure. The ML classifier 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=organic+chemistry+mcmurry+9th+edition+pdf
    • http://files.gerigventer.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695467/lukifusatodixe_wamete_poseboxapovi_beregoniba.pdf
    • http://files.houghtonwhite.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871488/34fc1e50a.pdf
    • http://wixexe.trupbsc.ca/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069869/4468639.pdf
    • http://waniza.fifilashes.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858419/demolu-zexasogaw.pdf
    • http://files.namiwashcounty.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739971/ragenufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0607/3759/files/94378534874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6498/3701/files/biodata_template_philippines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8940/2779/files/58503514915.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7801/6421/files/ram_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6076/3555/files/48219388942.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/rikerifibelebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4066/0904/files/google_chrome_for_laptop_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3073/1173/files/promised_land_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1370/9725/files/22900094475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8198/2361/files/93484479850.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3620/5479/files/wufinopexudulu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/5720/9495/files/rome_audio_guides_free.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_off00004f65.bin
e797c206bb82e33d6a012f5b12a7e90f656efc2279cab063bb12f7f33f42c0e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F65 5824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000630d.bin
7fcb8736517092e16bbdb17371c5753413c972be13fbce79021d03598e375246
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x630D 14440 bytes