Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a88c18ca7442b7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-28 09:19:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 01bc286d6c8d84d25dd212d9ebf6c523 SHA-1: 741db9fe55592b190cfa14625c045840d7ff4799 SHA-256: 5a88c18ca7442b7a8b4111e2ccf1e87e6f53c1b54cabcec1f09f7bddaff45e94
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains but are likely part of a link farm to improve SEO for malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=hyperlynx+signal+integrity+tutorial+pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains embedded URLs, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity.

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=hyperlynx+signal+integrity+tutorial+pdf
    • http://files.newreach.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874317/416eacc5386200c.pdf
    • http://files.therasmusbrasil.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740166/e11f096f3443a.pdf
    • http://files.lapasd.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681916/3090628.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4966/2117/files/twitter_videos_android_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4877/2508/files/business_english_conversation_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3802/3592/files/jogogepes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1901/0201/files/book_review_format_apa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7224/8215/files/poe_speed_leveling_guide_3._7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3545/0774/files/fagunubofufumed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2525/3023/files/vowusunokuxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rowogumidakedodovejizana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7723/7913/files/maximum_strength_workout.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5095/1066/files/fafixoxivefubafa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/duvogoz.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005fe9.bin
38a33ccaad81f518555d302da557e5e34b452e83516cb93e26100ca5d0b44350
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FE9 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007228.bin
ba91cdb214338f19acd9eb15514690b114a39ca73530776769a6f6b91d35f1d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7228 10616 bytes