Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea53aa39de3af431…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.3 KB Created: 2020-08-21 13:01:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d45f062b75a1120d83a3f0f15fedbb36 SHA-1: c1b3ade5dec738e568b3cd200a979ebac4fb84e0 SHA-256: ea53aa39de3af4313eae4f094eb362b177d7d449b06e8c0d535c24ef0031c3d6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. The embedded URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=pharmaceutical+gmp+audit+report is the primary indicator of this malicious redirection. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, flagged by PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=pharmaceutical+gmp+audit+report
    • http://files.a1fitnessusa.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382721/3944884.pdf
    • http://ginamewid.idcseychelles.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/bepakotazi.pdf
    • http://files.totalharvestcontrol.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637385/3142294.pdf
    • http://jokisifot.loveurneighbour.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/xutikezo_losanip.pdf
    • http://bimida.returningtocompassion.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636655/jomanegizi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2312/2084/files/fikarijiwusixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7982/6584/files/22679692389.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8110/4541/files/mixaranevadiwigapavakul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0129/8589/files/capability_curve_of_alternator.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9467/8435/files/21543188193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2201/4885/files/zugepebezogarax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/57896919986.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9581/8397/files/classification_of_agrochemicals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8229/3141/files/72550651295.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0987/5873/files/online_books_to_read_for_free.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_off00009e58.bin
c83ccf26d545fde259aee2a4199c6b399f3a649c3b61cf598bb036c037aff6da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E58 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b037.bin
05c19a6e364fee9210b115e4304b4e282e8929478239c6c6a47a3b3b7b97b061
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB037 10588 bytes