Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abfddd4eb812c352…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-11 16:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d706ed7d992c8ac0aa6a80160143c533 SHA-1: 3d73fd4de2b26cd23dba174559a7495dc8be629a SHA-256: abfddd4eb812c352e668f083e602c008b2bfa0ad02e59ee94e69410e37c6cd36
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of outbound links, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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=albinismo+tratamiento+pdf
    • http://files.therheumatologist.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814402/1306390.pdf
    • http://fidug.fennwaypointe.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/nifazevasax_mijisixoduf.pdf
    • http://files.gingersurprises.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483083/fukosupobig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/33943611723.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1936/9628/files/the_courtship_of_eddie_s_father_movie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4024/9755/files/51342515976.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4782/2236/files/sofojewedaneriv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9568/5288/files/bumebuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6709/7756/files/gevesogepepodumaduzuforo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0654/8377/files/92620643792.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8330/8955/files/murojateguxunisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2330/9727/files/23670551764.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7832/4117/files/driver_easy_license_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5593/9733/files/xazogetirili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8909/1989/files/losipolaxopafojeri.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_off0000685f.bin
a1c62aa5f50f8b3e364f61c9f616055b196042313e21e4312ca85e572c261500
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x685F 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a47.bin
0c1195e1f899cd07287039bce97eeebc3132aff6f59c2e59f6f9ce2a9d2a48d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A47 11812 bytes