Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23d318e7fa758549…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:54:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b027d521acc4f5a7a5f8725b16d91e19 SHA-1: 9b6efbd6206663c38555edba914557babdfe23ae SHA-256: 23d318e7fa758549e0fc934be27811973ff6aa3838c921616404be6b5cceb230
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a manual for a Cardo Systems Packtalk device. The document also features a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, likely as part of an SEO link farm to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive document and a malicious URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/wb?keyword=cardo%20systems%20packtalk%20manual
    • http://dolovok.writerstellall.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776418/911a17fc.pdf
    • http://files.truahealth.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710661/mufigajixaraf-gutorimidusami.pdf
    • http://files.ligonierhighlandgames.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816036/ed36859012d.pdf
    • http://files.missjordanjean.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680986/sumuzimukimip-kunebowe-soxaf-fezupibere.pdf
    • https://latest.cardosystems.com/update-my-unit/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5202/3458/files/65456550937.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1231/6584/files/lunitizufovuzobudor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8413/6086/files/7145273336.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3187/8049/files/kotuposaribuxukogaso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3170/8316/files/14512869767.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8976/4245/files/daily_using_english_words_with_telugu_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5670/8254/files/mokuvuredalifezusawojit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6453/2900/files/lease_agreement_form_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9643/files/nelemizexajasikalabezokug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9502/3013/files/69253928562.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3581/9164/files/irish_stick_fighting.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_off00005f1e.bin
b0c95cd478f6d660cdae0331a12333c4beb2c303e145abb87799daedb3fadd75
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F1E 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000710d.bin
c31b1265049314d0a6c0f9c5a8b78a19bd56379850148945f375b8b504ad696f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x710D 9980 bytes