Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d668b4d66fe0a5cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-04 20:12:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fd59b69448314897f1b78083348470ff SHA-1: 062083648d462556a2af7e338758c4e09aa7be1d SHA-256: d668b4d66fe0a5cd2c5aad2ef74982353acddd97afda612237a1ca7aa70565f6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=characterization+worksheet+4+pdf. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is likely used in the redirection. 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=characterization+worksheet+4+pdf
    • http://files.advancement-est.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379396/risimowunuvekuxeweku.pdf
    • http://files.hausmusiknz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409309/2805670.pdf
    • http://files.brannoncarnesministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407445/fca00f44fa.pdf
    • http://files.philaflag.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814124/9855d565c4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7026/7291/files/78077804700.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8179/files/puxitodutidagalira.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6601/5400/files/ratatouille_full_movie_online_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/dowiwugusadekawamilemin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3798/1852/files/97707022941.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5790/4792/files/54279271568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/16175378270.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5361/2182/files/78259829921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4935/2349/files/4583262623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6273/files/80911173779.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8593/0402/files/tenunufaj.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_off0000706a.bin
f8077cc91a1fcd227b76fed5145f8230596971d2653453a9495d1cc1f4d1bd81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x706A 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082e9.bin
50c7269f8c02ebf0aeae760ae469c7af0a615e79850cd0129a65ada60a532187
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82E9 10192 bytes