Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 563f9d2a1a12470e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 17:17:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d780ee658ce5192e57da64ddf04169cd SHA-1: 78223753226900b8f383a043144e0739436ad50a SHA-256: 563f9d2a1a12470e0cc90b2fcd2f29b161a4f88c45f94d74b16eb59f0afb3cbd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, which is characteristic of a link farm. One of these links, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=c+d+r+full+form, is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the link farm and malicious redirector are sufficient indicators of malicious intent.

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=c+d+r+full+form
    • http://files.greyhoundadoption.ca/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637606/e23e1fc.pdf
    • http://files.ironhawkelevator.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681665/pigokor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1661/8145/files/14642023532.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4130/0380/files/sublime_package_install.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5477/5970/files/8496071592.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7974/5192/files/zelowefuveneti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4885/3926/files/99520786720.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5827/5238/files/jodutetesejewotetojunilij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/94495825322.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5949/4555/files/rekawijesuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0916/2907/files/xajoni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5937/2439/files/xapogu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4653/files/76600607767.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0692/5720/files/barcelona_metro_map.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006245.bin
d7e24640e238db4a42c65d23f0f269c23ecdaff2b72cf201da15c772beb009e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6245 4220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000708d.bin
04840e0f6317afa7d2d8eff9fac37ffc75b6780bbbebd90c0ee069a88b3ee5c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x708D 10144 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009342.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9342 4324 bytes