Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b9438385fc29c4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 21:40:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a51048e6dc5b27b5c2598768ba81abd5 SHA-1: fb8767c5dc64c3593bb32cab884455d5c1cc9c0f SHA-256: 7b9438385fc29c4a64ab1102b064e9db5e059f3f7924474996c781177f48f8d6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a link farm of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=tulsa+allergy+report+mold`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to 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/pify?keyword=tulsa+allergy+report+mold
    • http://files.bohemianbrowngurl.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303329/9ab25d820a25.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6572/9429/files/how_to_manually_drain_a_whirlpool_washer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6031/3763/files/gugefapamonamewaju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2944/5273/files/riesgo_cardiovascular_global.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6678/5949/files/miduzigevepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2839/7727/files/bard_s_tale_2_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9224/2588/files/59841297111.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8379/2548/files/lagaraditaxebesonaziz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/46150969179.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2652/0986/files/jakurukododijujozalawuzaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2931/4206/files/nodononarinamuva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0234/6148/files/3758860576.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_off000052e4.bin
ac657889deadd5fa5f9f99c18a0a9ece9c43691572fabb736139132ae030cfc5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52E4 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064ef.bin
3ebea2e27d73d780923518e893f2c1ebf454a8d48caa86b993cabea00d7b48f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64EF 13988 bytes