Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6717dfdbc6e84fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:18:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2b440940e8ea35be1049dc0a26282dee SHA-1: d0be5a7b31937b22d5972f66cf9d615121350359 SHA-256: e6717dfdbc6e84fabf7de665995d2af8fd5189adc7885d65d38b5dd462301f7a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive link farm and the malicious redirector URL are strong indicators of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=acupuntura+auricular+china+pdf
    • http://files.the-mad-scientist.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453823/5246597.pdf
    • http://files.ctcphiladelphia.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969206/8376287.pdf
    • http://belosi.anthonytopham.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/3f503b1db8f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/73979124000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2211/3192/files/27716533023.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/viloronijiletamuzolodoxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7680/5013/files/57282385999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2530/9604/files/97416993919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9065/4885/files/wuzugarowinovalarojaxovum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/vitijupisepagozewid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7012/8277/files/23135117934.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8005/5958/files/anticoagulant_therapy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8606/2495/files/97741316284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4085/7494/files/95772675637.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_off0000756d.bin
77f471aa6f25229ac04aae7d3f263ef653d9c5c155b056672b4b8e4edb252937
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x756D 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008698.bin
91110ae8d36b0d95966956c701237d9df7bec969e956d1d19f746715f69e6c56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8698 10424 bytes