Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a86d37049c280653…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 14:55:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1f109fa80aee7e7c46aded1655cd2c96 SHA-1: a12bcb8e9da981ba842cd7b109010a5ab361a4b7 SHA-256: a86d37049c28065363a9042bbc3f97f6bb8e2815a838cc94240d78b898a49e75
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a redirector service, which is a common technique for phishing and malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'US work visa application form pdf' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=us+work+visa+application+form+pdf, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. Several other URLs hosted on Shopify are also present, but these are generally classified as benign.

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=us+work+visa+application+form+pdf
    • http://files.etf12trade.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874480/6665712.pdf
    • http://files.cafedatalkalamode.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874031/rofebir.pdf
    • http://files.cutandpresscreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453598/dutoji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9463/7734/files/gogogusamoxokafa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8000/8355/files/63245957293.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31968244380.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2692/2146/files/bexix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2327/0042/files/walevisamuki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8180/9558/files/zapap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xizijifopaxefiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6876/5861/files/system_admin_roles_and_responsibilities.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fusuzirosaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3741/6869/files/wapuzetawivakavowafofik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5737/3589/files/tazodavur.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_off00005f1c.bin
d627f825d1020efbcd3b7c5bf10e09126728b627113c2f55fd334eaa1874d791
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F1C 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071e4.bin
0abdc9690d2cd757118e34a00068d5dbca2cdf7f8799431223eaf57d21cc3d28
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71E4 10204 bytes