Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcb8a9e4f8434cd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 09:44:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2a24261acdcff89252ef58a85c42d14c SHA-1: db76462154a4db476ba7f930724eda0e013809d9 SHA-256: dcb8a9e4f8434cd6404c9086cda8eff3148b01f8933d8458a4d9412f29764245
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=av+malformation+mri+findings', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. Additionally, a large list of PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, were found, indicating a link farm strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=av+malformation+mri+findings
    • http://files.handsfreehectare.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303353/gesagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/shaak_ti_force_unleashed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3993/1033/files/roduvesojadimufejufol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2060/5850/files/caballo_de_troya_6_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/85155057715.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6993/1673/files/wowagejamo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8237/4561/files/62837688517.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2256/4000/files/43075406538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2695/files/6827886969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6353/3977/files/zisagupakulet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7279/0174/files/agriculture_census_2015-_16.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2340/8032/files/wakutaturorap.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_off000066cd.bin
fef14d1b4c7de7a1d0d0b40187a379139ce604bdda30fc232cd331e299b96a1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66CD 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078a5.bin
eaf5fc8a0a1035a62756121653ea99d3bd6382fc8e4b2a0dfd84bde90ab3dffc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78A5 9988 bytes