Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93dfafab013ec39d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 20:12:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e1834c0b21e53b7eeb27266907a178ac SHA-1: c7c5c3f68dca057c798ed273499fc7fabc0cff05 SHA-256: 93dfafab013ec39d3da2bae35a746eace62647866c8875f3ced43e4a2027eeba
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=lesson+learned+format+ppt'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and other PDF links, suggesting a phishing or social engineering attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

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=lesson+learned+format+ppt
    • http://sufub.katarinaclairecorner.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383791/susupad.pdf
    • http://files.lasvegasymf.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776381/9220167.pdf
    • http://jovojuje.lindsayelisebrennan.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438216/fuvetani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6905/5911/files/sabotozetajijixegon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8911/6836/files/botany_for_gardeners_3rd_edition_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1479/1069/files/noselufiwenerivimalumaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4034/2169/files/cantaloupe_island_guitar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3083/0494/files/94773094590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9663/7597/files/shakespeare_sonnet_18.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5721/6669/files/17541351208.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7080/7459/files/81361125546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5622/5688/files/96830980774.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0849/9618/files/wowalodovutifokela.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_off000048bb.bin
a558af8f918e07afdddde16f327d824944a04c3e473211ac31c97d23374ad94e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48BB 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a15.bin
e37271fa75f81f4f591e9ccb911ab6c37cfaf3acacb76bec9395bab5da2def9a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A15 10428 bytes