Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 292ee9d2785ccf6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-02 08:16:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d8d8540e312c150f9eade87e1255935b SHA-1: 720a69c2a2e2452d005992472ab1ced15ee24399 SHA-256: 292ee9d2785ccf6c564cc8118bfdffb01e433bdaa32c112c550db4ded36b7959
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=class+javalaunchhelper+is+implemented+in+both', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this redirector URL and other Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=class+javalaunchhelper+is+implemented+in+both
    • http://files.katatheironthorn.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739746/garamunebunakup.pdf
    • http://files.ccmomsandtots.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776118/7339700.pdf
    • http://files.aquaplantcontrol.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381363/2772171.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6381/2002/files/8409010873.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3041/2450/files/libadesorob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9714/4990/files/13826774578.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9120/5021/files/28256755911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0392/5912/files/wowijunotobasewerudodoje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5249/1159/files/mumopobisepebavolago.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7738/6918/files/97737045228.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7916/4314/files/92040757694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/94362649472.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9429/5203/files/mariners_probable_pitchers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nexunalazuzifoginiwaboliz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9966/7099/files/kizalokadozifiji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4837/0333/files/bufitarif.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_off00004f0e.bin
bead2f8b5812e5d2c19bad08ae6b9a50cc65df82ae0cdb59d292a4fad3958a39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F0E 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000618d.bin
1ca88c48850433c7c32154fb0d6a292a9326d3be3a2252f0b89f0edbf11329f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x618D 9936 bytes