Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 469091d85c464ac2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-07-30 09:44:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 33cbbc0aee8929ca607973b6ce1b80dd SHA-1: 94c7737e005802ab9cba7c3f6a1e91f9bfc47a82 SHA-256: 469091d85c464ac248815ef6d98df2df299c4645008d9692260db2680e4fa9a1
152 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 redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.ru). This indicates a social engineering attack designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also 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/pify?keyword=buffalo+wild+wings+menu+and+prices+pdf
    • http://files.clovercaredoulaservices.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740270/menilefepor.pdf
    • http://files.momentsofgracewithmargaret.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409309/jasanidefebofo-ruritokosag-jidapozeba-kaxixonoko.pdf
    • http://files.monikamdesign.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438541/d34ecd93.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopif
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mitev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7701/8524/files/zowopuzizasagowakaruluxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jazaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2161/5772/files/40761772839.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5769/3347/files/jisilaxogexibojekano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6911/files/47409742830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1028/3931/files/wewawopuviduzedi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7628/7645/files/kupawuveviberuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6842/3334/files/xirukiwid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6998/9279/files/butasi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5104/9370/files/vetusuboj.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_off00006bde.bin
7025126eecf5d86809c87999cb591ad3c0eaac37614e936a5e2b3868e2d9e08f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BDE 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e40.bin
de7cf84d9521d7b183862e0ce65127489ad0292afa81417f72ed0e77e072b308
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E40 10164 bytes