Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9da4be282e48ca4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 02:53:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 119d85e7edc890ac6510db335997580d SHA-1: 1fa2050916c9a0f8d08623b1d4781bdd20fdfbfb SHA-256: 9da4be282e48ca4def4caee23544c80f5b9ccfa93fdb17b364915d75bdc920c5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=next+chess+move'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to click the malicious link, which is likely the initial step in a multi-stage attack.

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=next+chess+move
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3655/7987/files/31059101010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3089/6026/files/keto_breakfast_recipes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4138/2812/files/26329823792.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1905/7822/files/65076837711.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1458/6517/files/eos_70d_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8184/3353/files/30469852205.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1613/4562/files/12888315147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7786/8443/files/csf_rhinorrhea_cribriform_plate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6104/3605/files/78154232892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3116/7137/files/7867839905.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/5206/4917/files/70803283133.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5936/3478/files/south_park_season_17.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0509/9675/files/roserexaduvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5650/4744/files/tameluranipu.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_off00007b7b.bin
1fc91cc48593dea27307c1b46646fb40693bcd54138d70df37df43e67049dccf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B7B 4800 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008bbc.bin
022eb5ddac7a6b12ca5b2331b6d6378466de1bc13ae6aa7c7a2b0c427af67e9d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BBC 10436 bytes