Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d480e0a796d68775…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-17 17:30:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1c0cdb59c440ecf2789c925c7774a2fd SHA-1: b184cacfbed47bb77c417f5e6c116c33fa38c768 SHA-256: d480e0a796d68775d478fe730694de358f323fb5a12aa39b8f67adee8beff065
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with 17 external PDF links, including a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Mitosis and meiosis comparison answer key' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=mitosis+and+meiosis+comparison+answer+key
    • http://pibafoga.kathleenmarchetti.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710714/00bb8d8a9a6ce7.pdf
    • http://geninije.gerdesgala.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380550/76d5ebc.pdf
    • http://sesajojap.journeyhappyfit.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483281/6980480.pdf
    • http://files.acrylicandink.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069987/5b73e9234.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7233/1675/files/mapadarevokudinabat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4613/3157/files/71789742301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6550/8002/files/46079262938.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/matrix_dot_product.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6717/1223/files/83032546828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2583/3884/files/pofozaza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5657/0266/files/16739595063.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1339/7924/files/menurogerofiduba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mesujegixaxufusataxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0961/3725/files/nudoxepufubokunejafegoduj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4282/4611/files/17167153780.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1287/4662/files/fmea_process_steps.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1863/3894/files/adobe_indesign_free_brochure_templates.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_off00006dd1.bin
f86df67d82b003fdcd4969b8e1ec58f17f777c31d3100232ce8edf51e5af0557
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DD1 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000805e.bin
d38c288dc1c17f78a04290de039ddac5720e4e6713b0480dd7801cce8d35d4de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x805E 9788 bytes