Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43c64b5054969517…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 20:57:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f941ab6febfbb39db6077195b1f3ffe9 SHA-1: 95a382f8e5144e49e27f161e019ff35227ee9a2a SHA-256: 43c64b50549695175822213ceb3a38989c5df94e6d2025b1355e227d81cf40c6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=god+bless+america+sheet+music+for+trumpet'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm with 28 external links, predominantly hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute content or manipulate search results. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=god+bless+america+sheet+music+for+trumpet
    • http://files.jeraco.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814208/95566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6191/1460/files/86532189846.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3708/8154/files/download_ubuntu_14._04.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8295/6443/files/how_to_protect_in_adobe_reader_xi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/acs_study_guide_general_chemistry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4686/3005/files/bokemegilezitakozozalaled.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9722/6402/files/devil_may_cry_switch_performance.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8553/6159/files/50506348221.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9797/files/nc_dmv_practice_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4470/8245/files/towegape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8334/9668/files/articles_on_inclusive_education.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7063/5676/files/29319590667.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3759/6580/files/wreck_it_ralph_movie_script.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3142/7234/files/lejugesamiranelujoden.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_off000046f8.bin
54dfb05271529440469d1de9b263b4692d39edf635ed029118be0a0f6f44a4dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46F8 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000059c2.bin
c774bc870902d4a875dd2faa5bcbd99fc119eec15687dc53f7ec56f84c95bde1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59C2 9968 bytes