Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53829aaa2a16b161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 08:45:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2872f684e81f15dbf4a4fbd6b4b818fc SHA-1: e5d887b577edbb3a27641af3ccbf103a2e31287e SHA-256: 53829aaa2a16b1618e5cf7c830ee505e3723d2ee1fc73c9bdc1908d762c324e9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=dichiarazione+sostitutiva+dell+atto+di+notoriet%25C3%25A0+pdf+compilabile'. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site or download further malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=dichiarazione+sostitutiva+dell+atto+di+notoriet%25C3%25A0+pdf+compilabile
    • http://files.eliclothier.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969545/gufiniwojaxiwimod.pdf
    • http://files.yhwhourrighteousnesschicago.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856723/wujadubefeti_pefaja_kejasug_lasapedubun.pdf
    • http://files.advent-baltimore.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741162/6605318.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8584/files/tekamopoveguxedujibudu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7571/2664/files/riwijobujizororilagaxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4025/0775/files/18417120179.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0497/files/bovibusovinadidadupokox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4286/4289/files/automata_tutorial_point.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4620/7642/files/97721178774.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lojuxefututa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5030/2616/files/rizamajurudeji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1460/9303/files/19474761510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8003/1139/files/haproxy_rate_limiting.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_off00004edb.bin
3f2280d092af7bf683a823a29895e30200750e9f9b29e34a824a198c04dbf2d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4EDB 5880 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006235.bin
113aa43626460e9ac016124e5055513d50ff6da801d2122994398426e7d51cc7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6235 10272 bytes