Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42bcac302ebe1174…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-08-17 11:43:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f9dc7ec3502a036c17710c9b7b9c5215 SHA-1: 192f098c56767eb8c2e5aabf84e3dac7c893a95c SHA-256: 42bcac302ebe117494bb6d6099a8ddab215c41c4d0b411ccc08a1fd904209c46
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with 13 external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, designed to appear as legitimate resources. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=building+materials+ppt+free', points to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this is a lure to a malicious site.

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=building+materials+ppt+free
    • http://files.glenvarbaptist.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969837/wafabeba.pdf
    • http://wusudo.emilynahrens.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710657/4583701.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0223/2983/files/makixolozazezoxiru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4115/1386/files/pofudozafuvabolokefabigo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53567737566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7069/3282/files/bioremediation_of_wastewater.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3469/6097/files/financial_year_calendar_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0003/7527/files/scipy_multivariate_normal_log.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4691/0617/files/xotinaboruvila.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8379/2548/files/ficha_de_seguridad_de_acetona.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5279/files/19793266642.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6181/4172/files/sakewizajo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3752/2085/files/asco_catalog_solenoid_valve.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_off00005a66.bin
57334f8c3ac86d0ed4a1d3dee46c45e8bfae7d66653ff524e237f56f160c3960
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A66 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006caa.bin
01b7aa21706dabfb8acbe6b44e64fd1443a2916600bcf58104390c1ce37993a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CAA 10004 bytes