Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36a3d52e41b1746f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-23 09:48:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb69d9a51edfd01270c77d0e11d99892 SHA-1: 78b49d05d52f42240da8d6b19498be6d3e0d51bf SHA-256: 36a3d52e41b1746fb59f30da91e98c84e6f5f86150a8e7c6cd75ee1ec91ebec1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=calendario+2019+paraguay+pdf', which is also flagged as a malicious redirector. Another heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through seemingly legitimate platforms like Shopify. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=calendario+2019+paraguay+pdf
    • http://benufafi.ridgeandvalleyreptiles.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680835/d8e528.pdf
    • http://files.empoweredlifecounselling.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776619/bunoreg-dejozil-davavudajifebi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6094/4286/files/prevention_of_oppression_and_mismanagement_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6581/8789/files/rowekuzafifibabamog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2470/1845/files/64750074354.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4832/8603/files/cardboard_sheets_brisbane.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9838/3260/files/mastering_chemistry_answers_chapter_17.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9476/8802/files/naxojitegosozitamonodome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3459/1907/files/31548137900.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3830/8512/files/67995889663.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4959/9651/files/4055387403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/puvefetosibudakogugus.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_off000060e3.bin
1bcc6674f210995e817ef197ced1fd2abc8f8455c055153b28330a7985c26559
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60E3 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073c3.bin
e4411f03d0bd014e3502855622a7a7d90c2d808c8ba6cff4f31470161b61e785
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73C3 10740 bytes