Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffc69ce06b4dc17b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-27 14:10:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c5de80d9aa9367354882fb16f3e1cfdb SHA-1: ba4b1dfa038d8951a8b9f7cf73440f1baf7bb5e3 SHA-256: ffc69ce06b4dc17bdccd6840d95aa0477a355dd734c3a0812ae568382fd3ea75
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=manual+biblico+nelson', which is also listed as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=manual+biblico+nelson
    • http://files.polowl.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857626/5346932.pdf
    • http://files.flexypakofli.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740211/c5b5c8c5ffde719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/3904/2205/files/pixalid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3301/5958/files/89064565413.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4969/files/diwetojado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/barron_s_toeic_practice_exams_3rd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4809/2323/files/accord_participe_pass_avoir_et_tre.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5446/5175/files/divina_commedia_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9657/0024/files/76929126668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3330/4986/files/sosodutetova.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6924/3549/files/miwabenudevafefip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1188/9573/files/pifezibowupafodibusezo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1712/6556/files/bafefefeti.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_off000074c9.bin
826ffe2cf031b81fd3f58648f3814cf8df2331776395a788a92009c1416a6cdf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74C9 4840 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000854e.bin
04a01ab3831c3f94f6b49d9944bb31ae715631ec00e13532c363791677dc32d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x854E 10580 bytes