Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69e81794362517df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-09-03 00:22:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 04f521a9cbb4c3e3bc1422e6eaf3cbca SHA-1: e59234cc1c1a479fdf37c70fa6da61fa6e27e4e3 SHA-256: 69e81794362517df98cd9d715126c13779ff9746dc780dfdbc91bbb2d1f0f13b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one leading to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=penumbra+necrologue++ita, suggesting a lure to external content. The presence of numerous links to PDF files hosted on Shopify and other platforms indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content.

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/wix?keyword=penumbra+necrologue++ita
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0085/5706/files/44814543113.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1564/3031/files/60759298830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7522/1142/files/razoruzexadosifije.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/91960476686.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f14cf6_c3eecaa4b3f0429dbb97456d5e30cb75.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e6092c_3cfbc466d6874f499beca0379244bfa6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c250_1bde9ee5b8e64b9daca9f8201fb7d839.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f1d680_17a6bcfd83ad4fcb81939a3bb6e8fee4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dd6616_e5a4f194d0bf4367b7c95cbeba03c563.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_606533199cfd48628d599bea8ca6794d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6d45f6_2d4929e67aea44e995a7a5ae21b22686.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ff653_f48ce86f3d574332b9db6dbb364d15d5.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_off0000623d.bin
790f44225c6deca1f28f8686c044306b7b1acfe457382c63d64ba75f2e4676e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x623D 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000736a.bin
6639ab5c4bb760144325a606da4096615009b75a9f17e0dad438f4f405830f81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x736A 14952 bytes