Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ee3b410472c24f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2020-07-31 23:07:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2ad0c25bad7178204411c3ccb0109b9e SHA-1: 53b71c4b2200fdafbca8019354779aff850966b4 SHA-256: 8ee3b410472c24f4bb0c9110f67accd54b992c5bcc912abc92293a7d9eb22bfe
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=boss+gt+100+manual'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick the user into downloading a file or visiting a malicious site. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is flagged as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=boss+gt+100+manual
    • http://files.dorotasashabolle.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303209/2303198.pdf
    • http://files.tayhossdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164272/gizazexo.pdf
    • http://files.rifg.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164176/2602732.pdf
    • http://files.sapphiredobermans.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453395/c16ea.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3695/8104/files/rirubovugudiputofejosop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1777/0904/files/our_california_scott_foresman.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3907/2161/files/64705905152.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3890/7288/files/9118137062.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9019/8180/files/20165308962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wizivudid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8325/9301/files/fewamo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/44240048578.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1425/0905/files/xepexono.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1828/8285/files/7754963454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0470/7491/files/46482669416.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_off00010dd9.bin
75dcb2b57907632ebca0564add1a70f0b02bda942f9fc116f6c7bc30553f45d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD9 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011f5b.bin
90de2419d9d7c30e5809df1a2c33cf5d80ece86f8f79ef75ad4afd8c0469abb9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5B 10672 bytes