Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 548b7fa75dea1aa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 16:31:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 32fc2acdf8918fc7ad0c0210697ea64a SHA-1: 48c60a63dd138e31c8bf3ca6fbec8fa2b152fbc1 SHA-256: 548b7fa75dea1aa66c8da04605f58b83a17188b8aa987667e96fe34ca41e3528
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=vastu+shastra+pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Vastu shastra pdf' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to download or view PDF documents. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=vastu+shastra+pdf
    • http://files.kitsapcavy4h.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380054/xosovibikivibawolen.pdf
    • http://files.painsfireworks.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380842/6ebb474b.pdf
    • http://files.deprofundisprods.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606392/liwerof.pdf
    • http://kujuvalud.trainingaid.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452922/6941564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lekefokatonerosabiwifeva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4219/4083/files/zumipozitile.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9392/1685/files/arcpy_spatial_join.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9027/files/gewepegipalesewutox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4431/4024/files/23853072199.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/histoire_pour_apprendre_le_franais.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9202/5249/files/24726423175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9290/2037/files/fabaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6993/1671/files/61228719115.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6112/5013/files/las_constituciones_del_peru_domingo_garcia_belaunde.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8508/6374/files/19871062068.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_off00009f1e.bin
40e3298e914af51b58aa060c548b198a1e6ad83b204cc07bc6171599e5a77d26
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F1E 5060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b053.bin
0c621600d273371bd6ba8b9e160e5b14c1fd38870abec9b4ad0b13f7ba688856
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB053 10384 bytes