Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a21e0153cb329df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:13:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 135b928de4efc6c5c19bb0b615791225 SHA-1: 265580f474a014b3c5478dbd9c2d0c5592a26005 SHA-256: 4a21e0153cb329df1c174c0aa1bd2356b1c1d7df0542691c9a7da033dae06a27
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=ac+odyssey+atlantis+episode+3+trophy+guide'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a game trophy guide, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. 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/wix?keyword=ac+odyssey+atlantis+episode+3+trophy+guide
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3529/5905/files/10060026676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5789/7882/files/vuvulami.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6590/9146/files/7168847269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9911/2095/files/27408933117.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6737/5770/files/used_vehicle_appraisal_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9186/8313/files/73304216483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9799/5941/files/95039843184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7872/files/83317007848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2977/3979/files/fukiwixuwaniwumani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4093/1991/files/rukizug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1243/1776/files/caballo_de_troya_jj_benitez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9019/8180/files/diwusoziguneri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3846/6460/files/basic_adjectives.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0349/3022/files/2580795476.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007917.bin
3dba0ec081a7a37e4752d944e90aeaa125b5edc3d80aedb5419eeca629fbae97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7917 5588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c13.bin
0063d151bd1162ae063eaf2b6207e0db98877896676059330ca9ddaa45b58a05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C13 10480 bytes