Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a1ac9b7e7af8ff6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.5 KB Created: 2020-08-03 20:12:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d6e30e1457b7ab4b972ea3f6e44d9ed1 SHA-1: 357622e871f9dd587faec58aa402d8c38ad4a509 SHA-256: 4a1ac9b7e7af8ff6a43293afae1aa15f74a9bed83e7de9302f6265c5a9547b5b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution chain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL. The presence of numerous other links, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com', suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. 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=administra%25C3%25A7%25C3%25A3o+da+produ%25C3%25A7%25C3%25A3o+slack+pdf
    • http://files.baslerchiro.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738970/9533277.pdf
    • http://files.wattshappening.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857465/4683794.pdf
    • http://files.toptierfitnessholland.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380771/6147908.pdf
    • http://files.episcopalcommonprayer.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739628/3163205.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6761/3087/files/gasonamudi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5721/6678/files/cs_1._6_indir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1770/7425/files/xeribikiviwubumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4488/7963/files/25953382966.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5412/1635/files/30389746506.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2155/7150/files/sazugofimofuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2919/9005/files/sizofatez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/sofajozabujirorinaxugaju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1892/7775/files/41978005888.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1220/9309/files/viwos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2200/0029/files/sononefovaxasozovevixuz.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_off0001881e.bin
d4dad6b2f3aec2e6d9ab5a872da953da8a95a0b4bd132b3d9ebfaf828fbe6c44
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1881E 5856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00019b17.bin
6e7a16244dbd2c1507304fe0340f9ecf9b9bf42889dc956d4edc9dd162b3ac03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19B17 17804 bytes