Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d9ae75da3171f8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:15:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e8ed1f90653e493f042f14bd12a5ed94 SHA-1: 677de514f866df13ecba83555fdf6772fedca795 SHA-256: 8d9ae75da3171f8d193bfd9f88edd6019d342cdc09b98d4efad7ae60679bd884
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDF files, forming a link farm. One of these links, https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=chords+la+vie+en+rose+piaf, is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure through a deceptive link farm. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/wix?keyword=chords+la+vie+en+rose+piaf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7505/2454/files/68970404908.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7663/9127/files/65632325841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/0873/6662/files/consumer_reports_digital_subscription_discount_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1656/8487/files/74712726029.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7966/3765/files/66546831576.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9982/1982/files/minecraft_1._7._10_city_maps.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1597/6613/files/exponents_radicals_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0414/8382/files/kedozadebule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8326/0314/files/75699709614.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7699/3695/files/42934929979.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4a829_be76075bdb1f49c4a3a7a0e3374f36e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d1c05f_6b02efeef9f745d9a873ff6cb4dbebe9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2c2ee0dedd6a448a91324ba382142939.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4a001_3be3d0632bb64100a201b1758e3d7e3f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a593f_4355b1b8acf243609c4bb1ffe747f970.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_off00004aaa.bin
2e4f323248522ea1a568efcc67d4508d32e4f8c5f93c53fdf9ee6b3bd3ec11ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AAA 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005bfa.bin
ffb7fcaff58bd36edd4b424a08525c051a4366df571e65892878e3b7c71ccd14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BFA 9976 bytes