Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92e995cf4a8b815d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 14:47:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fd4c05ff7cbcf5972e6b861c53bd3dae SHA-1: e3b879561b5ffbb2020b575d0634224d6055e5e8 SHA-256: 92e995cf4a8b815dac3e13a9b1c33044633829c5382fdcf903fa71a2afbda951
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=sentence+combining%252F+sentence+variety+worksheet+answers'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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=sentence+combining%252F+sentence+variety+worksheet+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3353/4357/files/adobe_photoshop_lightroom_tutorials_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1855/9393/files/gurejavuwaledenexasove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2990/5058/files/phylum_arthropoda_caracteristicas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5596/2522/files/majazanobotosutobogibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8855/2870/files/ethiopian_grade_11_english_textbook_download.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f967ac_7d1c37eba9ae4572b6793b713ccd9832.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5e8de6_96542f0f3b774a4b9371bd20c772d639.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8720/0418/files/cg_police_si_admit_card_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6571/9449/files/reality_therapy_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9769/4109/files/33566187092.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6492/6111/files/poweroll_by_top-o-matic_troubleshooting.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2865/9870/files/79825393751.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_off000085e7.bin
130b748ad058bd18c4d0ad58720dfe673e74377946a965d700743d016f6f409e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85E7 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000098c0.bin
dff3971dffc9ef7c5e4b7a2e11863857c3abb75a45eb82bde6c0b481ff0a16c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98C0 10396 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000bbc3.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBC3 4324 bytes