Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35a8d164b0c717fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-28 06:10:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10ddde63cd71750d4178d051a4a46160 SHA-1: 7fd11b5a4f9e5fbda1fb33ecf734cdb934f5d099 SHA-256: 35a8d164b0c717fe88b8b50f42fb6a732508e3e771661561c424245d2c010faa
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=grados+de+significacion+del+adjetivo+ejercicios`. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several Shopify URLs, reinforcing the lure. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to malicious infrastructure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=grados+de+significacion+del+adjetivo+ejercicios
    • http://rutinol.sunfloweruk.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406427/madad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3078/8758/files/61385583478.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0695/0561/files/xugopoxuvixez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8741/9805/files/49435702770.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/lageliralowan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1895/2612/files/3475599540.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9072/2469/files/poropabobudujafonafig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9725/8136/files/black_lightning_episode_guide_wikipedia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/6082/2943/files/lemafunatugebakew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6997/2383/files/46268140409.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5959/3894/files/1671968012.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_off00005dc3.bin
8d0cbdde78ad25b0dbdfe8b9a3ae09b76abd4979a94471b68bd3231607eb0c3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DC3 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007019.bin
07580779a3ebb7fb7c36ff9c9cabd55a3c6ec1da757be4ab06c308ee1974d996
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7019 11068 bytes