Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5292d0390f13f561…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 19:40:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0cf1b3ba6caa0edd9811fb49c8043224 SHA-1: e10bb18a81cff0aa524af1f391ef10cccf5d8ed6 SHA-256: 5292d0390f13f5610c094438444005a5e720f090ab790bc8f1719a70221aa947
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 external PDFs hosted on Shopify. One of these links, disguised as a search result for 'Battle of Gettysburg map pdf', redirects to a known malicious infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be luring the user to click on the malicious 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=battle+of+gettysburg+map+pdf
    • http://gevur.lukeolson.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606505/0a86f2d345a8.pdf
    • http://puwuzine.wilsonhypnotherapy.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681834/246007.pdf
    • http://files.smallcoffee.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483002/lexomox_luvifewusedev_jusajufav_wemusoxoroxewum.pdf
    • http://leporil.strikeposes.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/487074619713.pdf
    • http://vapako.interlochenchamber.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384244/sususu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5093/3155/files/61775225716.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9560/files/newewuxokiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0997/4169/files/calendrier_novembre_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4379/9719/files/xotiwemosidesexiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5479/1832/files/94581853586.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1762/3959/files/lufamazo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3400/8987/files/big_data_architecture.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0789/3919/files/39809260946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6972/5080/files/74608363892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8022/8757/files/list_of_biotechnology_products.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3239/6447/files/tufts_mc_webmail.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_off00018e0a.bin
688440a98c4da9a2fcc237ae9d6c7ff9442ff035aa770ddc1afb8d529634c3b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E0A 5652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001a137.bin
a064bec77a85a63f63ad16ca5fabe7dc4e873aa26ab2de715247780dd678a26e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A137 15924 bytes