Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ee5442ab222855e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-17 12:47:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e93e48eba6395bfab3af064a98222797 SHA-1: df77daf17ae200d3c7db1a6aa7101d52b44e5f72 SHA-256: 4ee5442ab222855e4c0cd1e0ab65b6c1d03b4104b7f782b14a46bce5d2ef73c0
154 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 'ttraff.ru', which is also present in the document body. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link.

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=online+laboratory+reports
    • http://genudaruw.bridgewanganui.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681556/6368412.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7442/8827/files/ronuzefivutof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0336/0926/files/carers_allowance_application_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0057/8723/files/agenda_teocratica_2020_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0621/4819/files/daliwogopurosatajonize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6567/9776/files/jurnal_morfologi_caesalpinia_pulcherrima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4948/3426/files/jolagabodirux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0657/4238/files/99983612092.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3001/2316/files/48445186441.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c4c.bin
e8cd8feac4e14d28583f4bc2e1d63e9e4186ced84caeb0c0f456d0789a2f051f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C4C 4868 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cda.bin
aa131c640c21a4631c8e3f16f3c5d20dd8cdc7c449c1709eeade0a7600c515e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CDA 9788 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008e47.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E47 4324 bytes