Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34c84abb5c03034a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-26 02:45:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb030e97f0f274ac3d8704bd19339275 SHA-1: 5b8b831886b327a86a2a5e09b15dbc614340be12 SHA-256: 34c84abb5c03034ad58184f580bf0a54a0b27b6dd9051d228febf86088005f4d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many pointing to PDFs hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure (ttraff.ru). The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of embedded links and the presence of a malicious redirector suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites or distribute further payloads.

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=nioh+les+yeux+de+la+reine
    • http://files.the1000monkeys.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379510/1516775.pdf
    • http://files.kathyskreativeportraits.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406202/mulatujik.pdf
    • http://files.stullinvest.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776601/bifazeg.pdf
    • http://files.castrovilleconservationsociety.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437676/xifowesudar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/xubitamoxip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0948/1626/files/applied_analysis_of_variance_in_behavioral_science.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9674/4871/files/mabigukoxesevojogisuvule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3505/5512/files/compound_sentences_worksheets_using_and_but_or.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/1933/2766/files/garuwunopogaganegukexulu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1547/8176/files/80572493644.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4916/5734/files/56895859709.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/banefidofekadozimodomi.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_off0000601d.bin
e340919a981708d0220e068383b9f4a488c30e6c3e956127d4d7e373dd547a85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x601D 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007146.bin
71ad98807db7e1e85dda7d1e0cf6f2fc6e0192ac1b4227a6757731e8d567f35d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7146 12344 bytes