Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a9f2e7e07cdcde7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 16:07:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b7e32b5cdcf458ef6e806efd39ffacb9 SHA-1: 6bcdff79e358bbfbf6911c9340d91161812d4e0a SHA-256: 7a9f2e7e07cdcde76930a54be44f52697003125a0091624f9d5b11eada00c657
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL found in the heuristics, suggesting an attempt to trick users into clicking it. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=inside+address+format+business+letter
    • http://jisulene.massagemarketing101.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606174/5657a597b.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9605/3662/files/zekepeveni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6469/6738/files/60799526439.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5811/8312/files/bomalowudonepukelebewexiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/4780083199.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3588/files/gewegu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5222/1084/files/sagitokudaduwipijimijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8212/8291/files/89578761871.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7077/4693/files/kusavelotamarenurak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1959/7981/files/89004632125.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d86.bin
307ec525fbc67dac71da931d828b2a0fc9512a296669ea25bcc3e8deb4334821
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D86 5012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e67.bin
9a7df442d59dbdeb7bc53fa15accc3879c8b930474499c2ffb0c9c7b377e92af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E67 10284 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a17e.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA17E 4324 bytes