Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1596a132043eb1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:18:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e975729e4d882e5b0adc56b071c41ea9 SHA-1: 96d7c6ab7d5a9b30ad08c32ea39dbb12a668318e SHA-256: e1596a132043eb1c63591ec2c6a77db3c8ec918369d4bd35cace12dc635ca333
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a 'PDF SEO Link Farm'. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=chainbreaker+tara+sim+pdf', suggests a redirection mechanism to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links and the identified redirector point towards a delivery mechanism for further malicious activity.

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=chainbreaker+tara+sim+pdf
    • http://welepilep.fbcmprek.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969940/25b54eb88c10360.pdf
    • http://files.pureexistencedance.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384025/maxegisekivafe.pdf
    • http://files.myrules4life.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813616/zapaxosiwedofof_mozoxo_torufapapu_tuvawiserogowoj.pdf
    • http://zonamepup.jocelynphotoblogs.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483255/2256723.pdf
    • http://files.polymerall.shop/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969532/8256346.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4170/9462/files/98569068055.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9109/0844/files/tuted.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4686/9911/files/wotem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1839/3499/files/luzabakadaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3430/3912/files/97109896393.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3923/5997/files/fogiparifamugevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7850/6909/files/mugen_character_downloads.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0805/6740/files/famagijasunidekoruxufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6195/2155/files/xozemo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5657/8212/files/77451670633.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_off000067cf.bin
1a2a633c739a18970ffea5c54fb27f80280d15e187a5aaa09b799a8464f74f7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67CF 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079cf.bin
4db5c22c177bf14b86149eada2fedde7e1231f6ea5f0a79609faf0c7cd8e11d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79CF 10664 bytes