Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86fbc8a2e0a244e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 17:30:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c40ca66c319b89c3504b5b897f401a6 SHA-1: 821bee7de62dde02029eb819f7023e7c817d3966 SHA-256: 86fbc8a2e0a244e36cc62afef7fba0a9bdf507a995a70ab8bc47838e3f7dc282
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to a redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cholesterol+screening+guidelines+2019, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links to Shopify domains, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. 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=cholesterol+screening+guidelines+2019
    • http://files.zekveldgardenmarket.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483488/350645.pdf
    • http://files.diguptheyard.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636984/sudimevipad_nifad.pdf
    • http://files.heartofcoloradofiberartsguild.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381605/woxopexos-vifen.pdf
    • http://zapolikux.paragliding-korea.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398091/0b6233.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8911/6840/files/990904896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4916/4698/files/11123408927.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8642/0893/files/applescript_commands.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5544/7202/files/43350527373.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0093/9164/files/alpha_kappa_alpha_membership_intake_process_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1020/1499/files/criticism_of_rational_choice_theory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9947/0486/files/xupibesawutevupetufixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3082/3583/files/keep_track_of_your_bills_template.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ee5.bin
f6a652bbe733b0fb528f0f389be215c056f6666001987488a893f5ca8e55f2c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EE5 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000712b.bin
130eb1763ee52efe46250347d3332cc42d59f8662b33ff1d00a6dba9e51c21f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x712B 10624 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009554.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9554 4324 bytes