Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 401f2375fec02a81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-16 12:46:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 190ff7439f84aa6d0fc6bd712733ce3a SHA-1: 1f6f3191348756f60a00c0ae3fb5386bc7757b19 SHA-256: 401f2375fec02a812749462334f10ab02b2beb42d14e3cf381b2256e71f794fa
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive link presented as a passport application renewal form. This link, `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=canada+passport+application+form+renewal`, points to a known malicious redirector. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the observed redirection behavior.

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=canada+passport+application+form+renewal
    • http://xeledagob.highperformancecbt.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164239/palalovotazotok.pdf
    • http://files.seafom-friendsofmontessori.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379375/tatobuj-ranazulov.pdf
    • http://zidosoxi.palmerphyssci.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453194/pefapa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7677/1224/files/seleguteke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/99397771733.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8949/4177/files/adenitis_mesenterica_tratamiento.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0876/0742/files/comitia_centuriata.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6642/4477/files/gowawagolevaziwaxori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8759/3632/files/38075526375.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0698/3335/files/build_my_life_piano_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2750/5047/files/mapakun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9535/0684/files/44685212485.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8161/6808/files/what_to_expect_ultrasound_guided_breast_biopsy.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000652e.bin
9357c91528b55dbf597f510cb7a36b3b71df34f66baab4b44523e21f5acac4c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x652E 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076d4.bin
f1eec879b3fdcfb6758cfffbd58b905f6bdec9de578e0db6c17649bc572a39ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76D4 10420 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009a8e.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A8E 4324 bytes