Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 090aa43d56344813…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 14:40:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f51614979b18160b1ce57b6a3cae96bb SHA-1: cf48a98de6612a6d279557025051167a819d89ca SHA-256: 090aa43d56344813df7d4ea73bac8c0751b1b3f3e71959b8bd08b608b07ae8ed
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=app+to+convert+webpage+to+pdf`. Additionally, it hosts a large number of SEO-optimized links to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The presence of 'cmd' in the document text, alongside embedded URLs, suggests potential command execution or exploitation, likely related to the redirection. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=app+to+convert+webpage+to+pdf
    • http://files.fusiondancefest.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379443/xilexuletuxen.pdf
    • http://files.mindykannon.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969726/ca0c55e479da35.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9654/7230/files/materi_akuntansi_sebagai_sistem_informasi_kelas_12.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5880/7455/files/rumefexizov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0799/1195/files/sap_knowledge_transfer_plan_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2912/6550/files/free_download_math_worksheets_for_grade_5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3506/5505/files/rudeliwukinexibavaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3293/5574/files/12994240290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5351/3881/files/afterlight_apk_pc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9394/0629/files/free_sleek_modern_powerpoint_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1471/7599/files/70525175838.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0313/4627/files/bibosowemiwaboxovuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8628/9832/files/proyectos_de_techos_verdes.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/96
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e97.bin
54dbdeaa6410dfbd90b412e1f8b2aa2536f3a8afc29ac87bc3aa1d6c568a2fef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E97 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007108.bin
9a99cfe7260e8dc3815ca9fc64c36f7f953c26ddbb6f4be590ae3e9071f3e6e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7108 11152 bytes