Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f556c0cb7e5daddc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 06:17:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3a217d7a96efa40bfd8b9f3de72ac365 SHA-1: ac4b43d141c5791fc283d28313342d30e184bdb0 SHA-256: f556c0cb7e5daddca4ecd2f3da76fb8f59967a3328eda5c2dab5acf3d9c8d32b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=programming+in+ansi+c+7th+edition+book+pdf', suggesting a lure related to a programming book. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link.

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=programming+in+ansi+c+7th+edition+book+pdf
    • http://wiguwo.mazarchery.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398020/4efd7ce8ab8.pdf
    • http://jizejadaw.chrishopgood.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740873/zosabujowe-fijupevi-pikanumu-merijovu.pdf
    • http://jejir.arunasamivelu.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969723/leminofogox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0753/3475/files/darnified_ui_oblivion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1552/0935/files/rigatati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5093/3156/files/fakek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4823/files/cetoacidosis_diabetica_minsal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8457/0019/files/52897132040.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8857/6673/files/github_push_to_new_repo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4121/6919/files/lsit_sample_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4018/7303/files/gedirusuderuxaxoxiteti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5847/1846/files/67170823383.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2883/9586/files/san_diego_fbn.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3591/8489/files/30690672557.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_off00005577.bin
c8d217ee6956b7036a872d74d7432b73126da59b54707cb3367ab9fd7d54e1ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5577 5820 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006923.bin
753df6f352f3b261bda51bce852455c65ce48cfa33332ae69ba615fbb96509f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6923 10296 bytes