Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f60b7c9c280d0a90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-08-16 19:47:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: db6f7a88509b19a91064215cddc2f1e0 SHA-1: 8273f506f1699af7bbcf5648ad42961628ead9d9 SHA-256: f60b7c9c280d0a90c97af38fd242baa6b35450c9f325dcaf15d5489d70ba25ac
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=behavioral+marital+therapy+pdf', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking the link, leading them to potentially harmful content. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious 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=behavioral+marital+therapy+pdf
    • http://files.bookingcumbria.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872015/6cd187f1a4386.pdf
    • http://files.champagneholidays.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482892/54293.pdf
    • http://xajam.firstfridayswinnipeg.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/titetodutinexomop.pdf
    • http://boxabisa.billmitchellcreative.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740405/fanezamiju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8576/6561/files/garawojifamesepufefoxodaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8865/files/54289650326.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7899/1518/files/51581866450.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8022/0826/files/3373740922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4548/4706/files/zelinafofos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7281/3211/files/rajomewuweteduzujudubi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3876/7266/files/xabaxeril.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5692/2777/files/56771139602.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6911/1449/files/53076502853.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5021/3274/files/gaximolijenadexo.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_off000080e4.bin
3af753ce54b1f4153f8963393daf58432dc7ebe4c17055956ba168166a108195
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80E4 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000092e5.bin
709646b8159134c31f8817252c7345a26470a8f491a2a10863da4050771f7caf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92E5 10040 bytes