Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52987e58a2e07976…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:41:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 274c9460227168bbf49054799d44aa30 SHA-1: ddfdd2dfe65a437d4ac90df7fad04868ae4078de SHA-256: 52987e58a2e0797684b83acc30cf339899cd0d384c15c0db0902740028b203d6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link disguised as a search result for a 'Briggs and Stratton 5hp engine manual'. This link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=briggs+and+stratton+5hp+engine+manual', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the attack pattern of luring users to malicious infrastructure.

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=briggs+and+stratton+5hp+engine+manual
    • http://files.blackfoxxclothing.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856476/4521341.pdf
    • http://files.columbiacountyuco.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437157/bevanizinelesadajep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8664/2336/files/brainstorming_method.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6213/2897/files/rezem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6004/4710/files/69618171735.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7409/3217/files/rixivofijevimibasivilu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5674/3079/files/86355708393.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0708/0610/files/oxford_chemistry_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3437/0470/files/vemevozebesorezumojudow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1883/0503/files/zezekinesosetezelezujid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8839/files/14644857880.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_off000046ba.bin
760a93beba009c185357980f195decd65f1640deb1fe8b0ff5fe6fbc7a18d002
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46BA 5548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000596a.bin
48b50e325e2f34e28b053a596b198a54e8776ce63231daa458a3328899b5ddfb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x596A 9904 bytes