Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fd2263dc34e8b87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2020-07-28 19:15:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 27772ef4c727391a326eab46c9392302 SHA-1: f27c86d7146db0803459e5c595b5924c1c3a4b48 SHA-256: 9fd2263dc34e8b874b37f387ec883170d44e477c18ca48a6a7098bf438d7f285
154 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, pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'War cleric 5e guide', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to malicious infrastructure via embedded links.

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=war+cleric+5e+guide
    • http://files.ivywigmore.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776542/5433774.pdf
    • http://files.ipac-victoria.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681556/mevefegakewoda_kunujawadobe_rigakowap.pdf
    • http://files.purpleinkpublishing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437844/mikofoxaxomojope.pdf
    • http://files.kmillermusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437484/7dfa2943b79b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5476/8021/files/40059127093.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6428/5598/files/12029197391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9124/6747/files/93507554893.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1741554469.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jufozigazagapuji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8271/1201/files/42419495419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6285/3794/files/zurotorokaloz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4162/7029/files/43821811504.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80170273674.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_off0000e702.bin
dbbd1fdb2d34fb9ff744ada789f2eda27d1919a051cf5089506d55376d3c3435
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE702 4652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e8.bin
bb3a6361e58d05cc28c9f5f2c2d29bdb998a279b5c5fb00419eb3fe5fb9ff8e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E8 13468 bytes