Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43bd9158ecd8e70c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-26 12:49:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 272b282a18d5139d17a260679d77b21b SHA-1: d72c950e938ab982b756ecf624ca9500eb6ba55a SHA-256: 43bd9158ecd8e70c025cc2f5b18f9bd957aac4edc9f2aac1d54538ec50b15fdc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. This indicates a social engineering attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=distribucion+de+frecuencias+ejemplos+resueltos
    • http://files.artlimousin.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437601/bomewusex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3797/4950/files/90891699869.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6851/2669/files/96325342561.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8022/9791/files/zaxezituluvunoritokaduke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9612/1252/files/74099804549.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6966/1589/files/88363733782.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7084/9181/files/valoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4797/7114/files/blueprints_clinical_cases_in_neurology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/5692/2529/files/addition_worksheets_4th_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6859/6123/files/liutprand_of_cremona.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0899/1140/files/96200399818.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lorabo.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_off00006900.bin
70939ebf78e6b3580941aabaa8ea4d5b790a87dd176f3b0cb2df337bd8accb00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6900 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ba0.bin
485141ac5ac653a6b938fd607f52032835bbfd44342e13bb6f77297582924905
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BA0 11416 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a0ff.bin
713933360072c9d59346590fad668f98c3603c6d2b72ed941ce85481f6af0b74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0FF 16060 bytes