Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80d4e720af97ba29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 22:06:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1ed2760cd47ec6d8a696503d1961b340 SHA-1: 2db8a2dbd631b4f845a76d0f9aeaa469074ed168 SHA-256: 80d4e720af97ba29885005612bc4ecb9596372534e56f7c0e55c201efbe2e576
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=collins+german+english+dictionary+pdf`. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. This suggests the primary attack pattern is to lure the user into clicking malicious links, likely leading to further compromise.

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=collins+german+english+dictionary+pdf
    • http://files.davidstaceyphoto.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/9681162.pdf
    • http://files.whitethornequinehealth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775373/laxebudamepawe-bufamadelilexon.pdf
    • http://files.keyuped.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454770/29125.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4012/6614/files/nubilar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8904/4383/files/dazudane.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0729/6163/files/jetutosaregizezize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3315/6001/files/easy_algebra_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0498/4483/files/zexuganejemifedota.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7932/7141/files/bewesenopadigoxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9033/7182/files/riferotoxeninox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4783/0183/files/nixudukerokilavigevopoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7875/4199/files/majifuberixotex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1184/9892/files/how_to_reinstall_npm.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5598/8374/files/kesufinifaji.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006055.bin
9d1ce35d90777da2c2a239f6a329f40506a2b29615323ecd3e8ef98ea9c7fa88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6055 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007326.bin
cea86f5baff303765cf648ca830f8128648e7e3bdfb576db6637b3f5c4996004
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7326 10020 bytes