Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d7e0f3c6454f6c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-07-27 00:46:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 28023e3900d81359d1dd21b3f21c54f5 SHA-1: 4cbfa767716901cb4c2cdf34a0dde638690a6312 SHA-256: 8d7e0f3c6454f6c549321904e216a66496a44f9ce319abdb8ddc3933603c5f8f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of 'Sql server 2017 express' and the redirector URL suggest a lure related to software downloads or licensing, aiming to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

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=sql+server+2017+express
    • http://files.burmataskforce.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874381/lisisevepo.pdf
    • http://files.norwichsurgicalsociety.org.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740110/rojapupavipevo.pdf
    • http://files.membraneemulsification.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483020/4952308.pdf
    • http://files.beeffoundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637034/dadigaguxa.pdf
    • http://files.burmataskforce.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874381/lisisevep
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1560/files/21578512244.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8624/2209/files/50026074751.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2647/2345/files/nufosotilixirexar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7142/9016/files/4684220819.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8090/8951/files/51119016833.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3911/3895/files/34733042469.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xokuwunojuvilil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/26225030347.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1775/6062/files/19237697644.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2809/3856/files/gezutusabujop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7578/9215/files/jotofuk.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_off00007dfa.bin
ff162af4078d4513aa07d55615dccd7055e4804328be563723a3bce3a3350898
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DFA 4808 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008e6c.bin
b8ab237a95ec9c8fb2a609d53fb29d373bd9e538fd1bb5b8bd95e41329bd1fa2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E6C 10724 bytes