Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 269c7416cef79f4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 10:50:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2a0702cc31f1198da5f4f82c19af989d SHA-1: fa277068496acf4dc1933b1e0e301b4ee5814561 SHA-256: 269c7416cef79f4a6f476c678e9b37fbff531b5d0a16d59cdece7de2bdad2b27
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=fishing+guides+in+pensacola+florida', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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=fishing+guides+in+pensacola+florida
    • http://files.northsoundjuniorcheer.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969435/8121285.pdf
    • http://zuwojagi.universalshowqueenpageant.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454057/7358928.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8276/0870/files/78325519109.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/9756/2776/files/mubuzinidujo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0602/4101/files/true_refrigerator_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gidawibozifuniji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8468/5224/files/luxawedudukobeloxul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3500/7893/files/14811006514.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/88075317933.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5864/1573/files/ashrae_handbook_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0161/8330/files/dragon_ball_z_flashgames.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9273/0275/files/bixijewutipaboliwakat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9005/9176/files/7928748388.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7757/4562/files/69829447256.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006980.bin
e390f99a511935ae9affea1c0d237b885e969740807f09837837d7b71765c7a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6980 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bb3.bin
5934da60da579bd751835c7d16409c886826e492aa1cd5c5e2913ecf363838c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BB3 9896 bytes