Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 205395c0b8556701…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.2 KB Created: 2020-08-16 20:08:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2952a249e8799d5b97682e56580729b9 SHA-1: 39c3e10d21ef60fc0a9156d95040378f7d8527d5 SHA-256: 205395c0b8556701ae14f37e553cf5d65aa9d79ab6abf30601c12460ba4287ad
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains numerous URLs, including a primary malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ardaas+karaan+all+song', which is likely used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of many links, including those hosted on Shopify, suggests an attempt to disguise malicious activity within a large number of seemingly benign links.

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=ardaas+karaan+all+song
    • http://fugeza.photostars.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437622/9b35cd0.pdf
    • http://files.marisamdesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712325/pixosozo.pdf
    • http://files.kvegasnuts.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163832/f90ade.pdf
    • http://files.gloucestershiresocietyartists.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636956/zukasira.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8283/3308/files/les_accords_jazz_au_piano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/asteroide_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1438/8888/files/8732665142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8396/4324/files/89998393535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7506/7297/files/iqra_hanacaraka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2806/0059/files/coats_tire_machine_parts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6788/2134/files/milk_adulteration_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0513/8328/files/apa_manual_6th_edition_free_ebook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2352/4259/files/agency_in_business_law.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_off00007def.bin
24def1dc7ef1352ec8cfd0019001c3ae1503f422787259627f42421e00d73e66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DEF 5044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f21.bin
1726960f85cdedac76a488d191e7eb3abbdf0aa9c14ef3ee42fb57351a119fe3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F21 14436 bytes