Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e186794519236d49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 15:01:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dd1abed3ccf3ae69267df1c93fb3a2bd SHA-1: fd65a52aae502ca636f5c7396659c7f2782bace5 SHA-256: e186794519236d49ce8cdb7a19d2e505dce19bfc5c2091f711c362874f3ff67c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a mass external PDF link farm, suggesting a tactic to artificially inflate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL: https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chimie+anorganica+nenitescu+pdf.

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.cc/pify?keyword=chimie+anorganica+nenitescu+pdf
    • http://files.cheshireneuroactive.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815045/5706238.pdf
    • http://files.michaelpiantadosi.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383771/sazasevuburepewoso.pdf
    • http://files.stayfrosty.co/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411857/d09353f5390.pdf
    • http://files.kristinvanrisseghem.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739227/wikupufudobidu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7474/0639/files/pokaruwuru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8937/9993/files/2004_honda_accord_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6202/5624/files/46041428417.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/dragon_age_arcane_warrior_build.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1203/6520/files/tilorejuxogejan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9986/4734/files/18414806364.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8482/3205/files/fuzikonezubimasujabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5025/1941/files/3126821611.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4068/1633/files/moral_character_letter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4171/0499/files/lujuvuzeme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3461/5708/files/vuluxazesupuwubajipana.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_off0000760c.bin
025cfc06292d12c7b1dd2e5b6ae8185819c3024c7fccc2481391d9bba24f7e97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x760C 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008864.bin
3c533517817ffc38993eedccfa1ed6acfb2cd0f0697c01a872801041340722a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8864 11808 bytes