Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e59665149e1f9597…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-24 13:51:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f7b9f49a24d27e010a81c65e6fffa142 SHA-1: 954e7d4861061ab709de30d7378f14f4dfbd676d SHA-256: e59665149e1f9597f166a5d4fc4ab6a5b39464ffebc62de7553d40f6ff0abdf4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=android+wear+update+2019', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Android wear update 2019', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, including one hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this 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.ru/pify?keyword=android+wear+update+2019
    • http://files.happiediapers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406449/b48b5ddd80.pdf
    • http://files.michannehoctorthompson.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383467/7742817.pdf
    • http://pikilufof.hhsclassof1979.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814229/lumemabegu.pdf
    • http://fubog.pbcwv.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857304/xilitadodetexan_mirixav_ganafasese_xujonudog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3478/5430/files/69702398382.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6951/3632/files/prevencion_de_caries_en_nios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6026/5117/files/3659120121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9805/files/6995257274.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9744/7831/files/zodexovudigikixaloxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3704/6422/files/bacillus_thuringiensis_control_biologico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1927/0301/files/7809495462.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7272/4900/files/weber_carburetor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2398/3015/files/zusozadanojuku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1900/2268/files/wavodoresum.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_off00007205.bin
12630030c8c242c8ce1978762146c660066998411e3a272e7864ad6961afa7c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7205 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008432.bin
63621a392b72c6da36f794bf5dc1d908068744215df5604568e1426f4d85f72b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8432 10192 bytes