Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffd422fa23d159fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 17:18:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f25eec2871477f6ee8961a26e9d378d8 SHA-1: f56d73965c29e92698597b4a8fb33b3ada6ded0c SHA-256: ffd422fa23d159fc726627bc1de197c080fe746e9591701ef84c09aef7a2fadb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and heuristics indicate it contains a large number of external links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=atomic+structure+test+questions+pdf', suggesting a lure related to test questions. The primary function appears to be a link farm designed to distribute 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=atomic+structure+test+questions+pdf
    • http://files.happyphoneunlocking.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406893/zitum.pdf
    • http://natobi.wmclb.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739564/457953.pdf
    • http://files.hogtownexperience.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775462/6173850.pdf
    • http://files.bbcgibson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740464/xivesiso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4593/6534/files/foxovujese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3462/3643/files/lobakidudojibasemafunona.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3733/5464/files/63075890545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6869/4432/files/86718814432.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5663/5805/files/english_grammar_tenses_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9413/8268/files/62427555615.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9659/5861/files/daketupuguwixid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3431/1845/files/lonadimolodunumevovidumem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zebegevuda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5192/6183/files/xomevozesogesogifixolat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7494/5184/files/dakerelegakokajojese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4178/1920/files/borderlands_3_luck_stat.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_off00004b49.bin
5be92a7f9d93d0b791aeaf89c3572273e2cb4fa55a4139a62c74b7d52ef40795
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B49 5176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005cd0.bin
17bbf5ee6adb26b3cad2117dbaa94f6c91194b70a0c1fa4843db1263a997c1de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CD0 9752 bytes