Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0a1ebfa45dc24fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-05 08:08:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1bcee74020d41955704b1c53e97bea8f SHA-1: bed870ba23b537d81e9b461566909716778b96a0 SHA-256: f0a1ebfa45dc24fd4828ade7bc54b50fe9ab2f383f80173686578b3cfb992b59
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm, pointing to various PDF files. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=carmilla+libro+pdf+gratis', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other PDF links, suggesting a lure to external content.

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=carmilla+libro+pdf+gratis
    • http://files.terrafirmaroasting.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682819/36ba9f8be3.pdf
    • http://files.easternsloperanch.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681404/3588728.pdf
    • http://files.confectionatelyyoursbakery.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969548/20dfa8598f8cb.pdf
    • http://files.gateslscott.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071184/6881945.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4460/8920/files/konuzerepukapiji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9964/4314/files/complete_phonics_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4906/6397/files/wavipevopalufepolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3523/7269/files/92480244289.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nuruge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0319/1193/files/96962402573.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8209/5517/files/9393631463.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1137/9097/files/baptism_certificate_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3462/4679/files/30492703849.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1361/1421/files/49150374830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6980/8550/files/delatuder.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0421/4942/files/95043778426.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6856/3351/files/minecraft_adventure_servers_with_classes.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_off000072f7.bin
313ba3bad17c514a706b7a03adfa5243fbc07bc5708b5342271e5ee8e452ceaf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72F7 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008535.bin
e53f4cc61ad0e626e261ca66139f2dd9ae20a2516276b3d57f983501a1f8a7cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8535 10244 bytes