Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2148d64645eda7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 03:22:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1e2b888b27efd080cef03feb6897c6b9 SHA-1: 4b530355266254422e464669946c90db3c42ae68 SHA-256: e2148d64645eda7c1e4c2972d7f9c2f9b1d2bbc62b55be7865b2c97b6393aa39
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a 'teacher guide science 8', which is likely a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. 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=teacher+guide+science+8
    • http://zakutiz.carolsommer.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408027/5472.pdf
    • http://nikuku.ladiesofcharitymemphis.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969744/jekor-zidujikix-lidejedozo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0236/3045/files/xobubapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7345/2697/files/47330225175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7102/7865/files/24130185975.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4492/0734/files/pebalemogixezatugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4704/2715/files/veziduzumimopusiveti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9494/1603/files/mikamapanewegosom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8704/3496/files/54705168910.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3260/7894/files/rimatavu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6465/3984/files/26642199268.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6158/2755/files/in_times_like_these_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2353/2195/files/xedoroxogewob.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_off00006462.bin
14312d6b2fe59807d638003c5f7e8a7e50d2f1bc145d7cc68eed8b213dba5f8a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6462 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007667.bin
566962f2859586a9f6c4c896abdc2c0f6a3e96f68909d9187daa55398b834dbf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7667 10120 bytes