Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a42417565d967e75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-07-23 22:47:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cc5c2ba6a92fddd95f5889841e7d6671 SHA-1: 4abc66562216ac67a96c19a7982bc369407f7ada SHA-256: a42417565d967e75358dd33fd77e7b9111efbb9a9e14bec91de11163c6ebc987
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment 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 SEO link farm heuristic, with numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a coordinated effort to lure victims. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link embedded within the document.

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=present+simple+present+continuous+exercises+pdf+beginners
    • http://files.tbrms.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409884/muwomuzo.pdf
    • http://files.lifeunshattered.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814056/rigifap-juzimokubivo.pdf
    • http://files.moraira-holidayvillas.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738823/xanapisutuwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vexib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/99923340171.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0928/6050/files/dutimolepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4695/9261/files/sakuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9232/0161/files/pedimejimirepixax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8029/5334/files/31952900720.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bobidaxida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8579/1383/files/35752473970.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/7904117193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7821/1991/files/watakibalene.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c23.bin
200a76adb45c531a03ce2c918f5af45031cadf020b04850522c7cfcb3680b4cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C23 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e37.bin
5f6fea68df8e0b05383e58b99f225654671bff87a84da9256c23e4c62ed6f5e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E37 9612 bytes