Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c7c0d0f65e6867a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 18:30:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebfc95280bc4b051e0a0318514cfeac6 SHA-1: 0e02c586f7678b1903ca46c2bebc37c8fdf4043b SHA-256: 3c7c0d0f65e6867a44a00e9cc6909ed57c945b137667a921297af84c1cba4a60
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one specifically to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. This indicates a phishing or redirection attack designed to lead users to malicious content. 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=medical+biophysics+damjanovich+pdf
    • http://files.northwoodshaman.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857115/3ae3c70.pdf
    • http://files.theproseccoproject.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407552/3384683.pdf
    • http://files.circular-canary.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969896/9774056.pdf
    • http://files.anniebeautyspa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739542/zajatalajofuzin-xavadimorexij-bebasete-dozupixedine.pdf
    • http://files.williamstownjuniorsnetballclub.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775677/7073730.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7199/6053/files/vejazitanamuzakejujupebu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7918/8118/files/22767601267.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9411/4455/files/adrenal_gland_tumors.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5811/9334/files/67007646910.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9191/7989/files/international_champions_cup_2020_fixtures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4384/0412/files/lavufitorip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4287/4278/files/xevubidi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9562/1796/files/kukavo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1350/5185/files/acs_organic_chemistry_exam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/statistical_data_mining_using_sas_applications.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8353/8331/files/bovobavisitapo.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_off00005502.bin
84df80c658c497feac30d3addf3cb7a44f0b48d1a390c8b2ab077634ad34ded0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5502 5680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000684a.bin
c86f550cf2d16ca72fa3285023e37024a942363cb2777d228b21e84ba9093639
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x684A 10488 bytes