Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50330d1ab9daf15a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.3 KB Created: 2020-08-25 12:15:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 25731bc385167f912d00521e10dedb73 SHA-1: f963261bdf067a8efa5c64bc205c82944c89bdc8 SHA-256: 50330d1ab9daf15a7681892823b39b5e060e68d141cc2b7640a8b99094337406
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm and a malicious redirector URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cipherlab+8231+manual, is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and numerous other links hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity within a large number of seemingly benign links. 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/pify?keyword=cipherlab+8231+manual
    • http://gaguxamep.fleurspressed.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696067/4703236.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7471/4784/files/92942010623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3356/7125/files/fokutuluta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0801/6027/files/tekinoxilitawixiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4613/2119/files/summer_athletics_games_free_for_pc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2054/0310/files/e_t_p_ka_full_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3006/8898/files/42980009655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kenetawibonilolususede.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9327/6312/files/data_analysis_methods_in_physical_oceanography_third_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3480/3352/files/83756949414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1687/0298/files/adosphere_2_livre.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_off0000413f.bin
c5ad3acb52870e0a6c6db2bb79fa48b037f11074dc62f12d6cc882e74b913ead
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x413F 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000053ae.bin
a86fd2bbe2285e457e6fc75c4d4ea0d5cd342c12eeb6c8f8e83e5e6043fdbbbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53AE 9748 bytes