Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82b8e32709e05b3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 13:27:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 18bcf1238799855d0316be5e00305596 SHA-1: 44f2e987ed1fb928e6d8bc1d2d1fe246aaea87e0 SHA-256: 82b8e32709e05b3fb2106571d690bc02e72f7de8c9b69a62a882a157a17c937e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating that many of these links point to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=kkk+and+the+kartilya+ng+katipunan+pdf. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains this same URL, suggesting it is the intended lure. The presence of numerous links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy to distribute the malicious payload.

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=kkk+and+the+kartilya+ng+katipunan+pdf
    • http://files.professorjedi.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379730/xesodexajuzenes.pdf
    • http://files.packaginganddisplayusa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738620/texenopoxegaga-manokedivupozi-viwopikupariz.pdf
    • http://files.authorresourcecentre.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814466/tibezuruw_vugofunu_soweredofawin.pdf
    • http://files.nothingpeak.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740141/1967482.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0717/9941/files/bugiganitoted.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3242/0250/files/dyson_dc17_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8164/6758/files/47427065862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4612/6247/files/62069998408.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3824/5017/files/calidad_de_vida_significado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9083/6632/files/jupuwugipumezitas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/ravamixatexaburuganewe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7049/6672/files/pifedujubumonoka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3734/9272/files/evinrude_88_spl_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9805/files/ssh_x11_forwarding.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_off000068b3.bin
d5f51afef91209ddc69f85dd0e1606f52c81759c5fa1ac7cfff5b89d92b63481
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68B3 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a94.bin
a333ff383ef9da18b8b7efa5a45109a10178fbd1c54d11ee18ca910815582cfb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A94 10112 bytes