Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1c2fcec36e65d13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 20:53:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 203748a21d4f9f2d9ca8ce6407204bb6 SHA-1: 96a8b3b8b2c1dda28277157d6107b58e357d9f99 SHA-256: f1c2fcec36e65d13d445c31bb859d57a56eec7b2e6b4bc16b8728a6f65139703
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=army+levels+of+leadership', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous links, including those hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially distribute malware or phish for credentials.

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=army+levels+of+leadership
    • http://files.tracyhansencoaching.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969115/d78bdfd3e53.pdf
    • http://tebif.frenetik.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/sefozurirasexirobas.pdf
    • http://files.dreamamazingtravel.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070112/9311130.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2556/3799/files/bilijobuzejodudigexas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8670/8889/files/94615563909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3799/0805/files/fisagagugagafamejutak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0398/4547/files/zaxixikazukejikujikebejo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8864/files/rojorobadazisemama.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5520/8858/files/first_world_war_history_in_urdu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/42632515291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9812/0094/files/ruzigojagurep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9242/6405/files/4746597507.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7381/4182/files/didevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6279/5167/files/personalidad_histrionico.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_off00006d98.bin
f2f42fe7f471ddb4e88e3702598dbfb44c9e3ba08d5e6dcafce042698484e489
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D98 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ffc.bin
c6ef2c2f5912a3dcebcde509507a5dc7b77e1a84fa5bc95689d7068111295b52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FFC 10068 bytes