Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 464ce9c1aea94fcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.9 KB Created: 2020-08-15 16:28:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e82003eb9fb85dcdf4c6c208588bc274 SHA-1: 5509f5cf34bb31a5d8f7cf3c72db5c04e9c82ee1 SHA-256: 464ce9c1aea94fccbb38331f955c794aa1b6ff9bdd2814477bcfa9102eb09aee
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.ru`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL and appears to be a lure related to 'ntpmex atualizada 2018 pdf'. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/wb?keyword=ntpmex%20atualizada%202018%20pdf
    • http://files.pennysmithrealty.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070452/waxularekeluletu.pdf
    • http://files.cocodancewear.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164472/xorexobovisoki-vufozebiwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7197/9172/files/kudajubuvufobe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9232/9119/files/99480745547.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0318/3258/files/car_research_xrm.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3502/3770/files/selatexilimal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0710/6462/files/tavazotakekivekokonuval.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vewurobafug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0763/1779/files/90484889014.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6806/2872/files/29606446136.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/libidurekatomanazavevufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4830/4797/files/lekesalegegazetuw.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_off0000a16a.bin
f8550ce3bf66d75ab4914f467973f22cfb79ae61b0306bcb675bc70a8151e15f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA16A 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b435.bin
149cb0f7941754f34da139f9d1ab99deb33efb0ab61a09a00549bd57703434f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB435 10192 bytes