Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a366a399d783b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-01 16:55:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de6aec00c55efe63d4083cd3dc8d11ca SHA-1: e4a532bb75c64dc165edf772ff36a8f9e00d80ac SHA-256: a7a366a399d783b740919d10892c1e9eca7ae3108a23d82b291a9fbe4de5b345
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a download for a '2004 chevy impala repair manual pdf download'. The document also hosts a large number of SEO-optimized PDF links, many pointing to shopify.com domains, suggesting a link farm or content stuffing tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=2004+chevy+impala+repair+manual+pdf+download
    • http://files.granteyeglasses.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740564/nipokazov.pdf
    • http://files.ssaanewhaven.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856949/posiniluwetogod.pdf
    • http://files.watermarin.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483421/5485384.pdf
    • http://files.bobgamblephotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969607/sawovipemu.pdf
    • http://files.dressageallday.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070625/nunotemedar_guwej_xogikirel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3909/6986/files/sopusigefetobediwugodok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7451/8180/files/65535632466.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/befuxaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3009/3728/files/riwimes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3728/6815/files/173633735.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5632/3995/files/nimifegejuzalosovaneb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0486/2375/files/dusizoku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/68513135127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0005/3408/files/79949811232.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2797/files/wurifaxewelivineduwifofet.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_off000066c8.bin
9620171c3d64d827ae36fa66c28ac3634a7d8d14521227ad94e982da755b9cfb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66C8 5740 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a4b.bin
11b677d3c9b9dda140ad3ca079f0d62789b3cac80fdb93043c9cdec069f15a7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A4B 9888 bytes