Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94a0cae3733b422b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.4 KB Created: 2020-08-16 20:36:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 25b40e7400578f1ad22c2ab00a2a205c SHA-1: 158c91337fb1960d1c7ee6d0ff2b05c150f9c6b0 SHA-256: 94a0cae3733b422b1ef9ac469bd947d7ce51d480bda06754341b7e6b34708d80
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the text 'Report favorably definition' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or scam site. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a redirector link confirms a malicious intent to lead the user to a harmful destination.

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=report+favorably+definition
    • http://files.srsca.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637553/kegitegefunasu-zirasibajusuwoj-robodove-wovifatuka.pdf
    • http://files.beauteholisticskincare.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412235/xulemegaguzaneliwa.pdf
    • http://files.musiccitypetpartners.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384635/98754a4cc7da42b.pdf
    • http://files.tuxpeoplesmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398333/fomokiwasudafa.pdf
    • http://files.myshoppingpath.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408741/05ec0f061dcdcc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5573/5203/files/puwasinupe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tovovowegafakaroseras.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8493/0462/files/29017287458.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4610/9341/files/29184432594.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4807/4405/files/47608019320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8370/3206/files/33259530771.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2888/1318/files/nusenoteregevijubinixum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1674/1283/files/webcal_mlb_am_tix_redsox_schedule_full.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4691/0624/files/vubuditosix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7303/4654/files/65777179287.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_off0000bfd1.bin
669a7c5333018af41a0a653f02b994ac6bf0fc909b5b3040279f9b4a0062486d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFD1 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d17b.bin
7f69b240cb3847655f8d9aedc01d77ad84955ad4144cce9b4b6707d4da3070cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD17B 10248 bytes