Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ee71c96e44ce6a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-02 22:41:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6e588edf3de09638a66773cce176343c SHA-1: 366d44137b2aea1cb0e59a6253f3c406d4d3043c SHA-256: 5ee71c96e44ce6a058fff77ed63f71c09d73595988147c13adafe7d75fe23daf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=miracle+shake+for+ed'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of a malicious redirector and link farm is sufficient evidence 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=miracle+shake+for+ed
    • http://files.funkyiceclothing.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815003/4469808.pdf
    • http://files.penncenterwest.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740232/69e53be.pdf
    • http://files.martsolflivelycontemporary.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874480/9679219.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0505/0021/files/36244881296.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9032/2342/files/53422570524.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2482/4995/files/6091572121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3994/7932/files/soxasumedeketu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3764/6245/files/bubebekawememu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9934/8389/files/lesodagikovuziwewupoxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7537/0136/files/bijakomepusufot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0818/8839/files/nusorafenupanowofuxexal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4164/3928/files/10217988373.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4583/8232/files/39715660877.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7663/0181/files/letokupuxure.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_off000060f3.bin
e60d2701338973c9d99a9809a59157d05f03056542dfff2337bc1bdd6fa82f85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60F3 5176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007290.bin
2a2aa983d0c3069be36b8c259171f7f1919a59f00dd56de2a9433b47b6b753b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7290 10048 bytes