Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 333ee46a007f91ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 10:37:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 224d869a824f92ad0b5d60dbe554f10a SHA-1: 61a4668468641eb02c54cc746fb929443e535fd2 SHA-256: 333ee46a007f91ecdc3067ceaf6a860392dafeaf867d8903ad7014343e809eb5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive title 'Shrink the size of a pdf' and numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=shrink+the+size+of+a+pdf'. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with many links pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on potentially compromised or malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=shrink+the+size+of+a+pdf
    • http://files.vidachiropractichixson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483235/4719018.pdf
    • http://files.westdentonibc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740572/mimowugesujaro.pdf
    • http://files.senbisamassagetherapy.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438490/damowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1407/9143/files/1291713684.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4087/4408/files/xitufegamorujenatevuvu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7954/8580/files/kijuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2122/8442/files/round_rock_tx_weather_forecast.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/74535711799.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6826/8456/files/sodezuvidibive.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9811/2167/files/77754524123.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8697/0021/files/18728498496.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9569/4239/files/31279880538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1801/8203/files/teruvebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9334/3912/files/ruxariwirowajenoku.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_off000066c9.bin
1997e993055d517f7602aeaf7386813c7b29c090ef05ab720e76902b03418088
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66C9 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078dc.bin
2ed24cd200e647b3d444aba2b36a22d972c79a6729baf30f6f7a3366b2a6412a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78DC 10112 bytes