Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3363c5214595a9e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-03 14:46:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2806a8d03a4a1ab4d2dd996f97bebae4 SHA-1: f193243e62300737ee3e980ce3129fae3c252847 SHA-256: 3363c5214595a9e63be48f0cce5e62d638679d3059af2db81dde62eaecd8180e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=shell+bargaining+for+advantage+pdf'. It also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many of which are hosted on Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the embedded URLs confirm a redirection to potentially harmful content.

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=shell+bargaining+for+advantage+pdf
    • http://files.dfirprofessional.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969452/tudesi.pdf
    • http://files.savouryspoon.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682585/dedinipabud_xogamujusab.pdf
    • http://files.ascendwellnessgroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775701/rivetip_voxilazosafawif.pdf
    • http://files.gogginslonestarfarms.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775032/9652219.pdf
    • http://files.goodchoicedogtraining.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606492/sanewoziwutexu_nimitakinadix_jidamozope_gulatazu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5689/7947/files/56911049558.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9972/4703/files/penilepuvuvu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0047/1456/files/57620171146.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3033/1047/files/71461018877.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8549/6482/files/kudasaliladepalesaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2278/6466/files/papaxidemoremorasowunofir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4942/files/jetepejulagerijerefape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7044/0095/files/wisopuxafuxedunira.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2117/2897/files/91969576395.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8035/8811/files/75610539852.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_off00005890.bin
decd6a83346d206d80048ca3e8fd2aeea67038df1f39307d67fe0ba917ae3005
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5890 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b07.bin
6932db4083bfadb632e1d1023d001d0649b1c9dee809559ecafe046cb1d3aab9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B07 10156 bytes