Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad7e76b45df49c2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 21:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0ca7b811a7bb67f7635533ec9b947588 SHA-1: 5aec6141d5b3c6705569d9c86c44e5bb108a4718 SHA-256: ad7e76b45df49c2ec39185caa9c317e718bef620a03cee3891752147f817db73
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link to `ttraff.ru` is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Cdna synthesis protocol invitrogen pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of numerous PDF links and a critical redirector link strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=cdna+synthesis+protocol+invitrogen+pdf
    • http://files.bayareazetaplayers.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483275/3188905.pdf
    • http://files.chromosome3andme.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438464/fawitim.pdf
    • http://sekip.centrealimentaireaylmer.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776485/a20126365fa.pdf
    • http://powavum.chino77thcavalry.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775162/d1c00e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4715/7914/files/polymerisation_of_alkenes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3928/4645/files/borikufilefono.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5245/7369/files/sharp_aquos_tv_user_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0522/0776/files/cardiopathie_rhumatismale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8250/5628/files/tufojegixitekogidatavusaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6177/1430/files/astrand_bike_test_protocol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5572/6238/files/70275525546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7453/6103/files/discord_developer_mode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1274/2550/files/57232141977.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5048/3368/files/diagnosis_banding_anemia_defisiensi_besi.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_off00004d05.bin
368cf15f09d927484a314f86b9c9b4369088d4184f2c0521b3fc06eacfbcdf3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D05 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005fb5.bin
2ccd9adf9fd6d7339260bac17c708f8086a7ccea83bf4b17356a5020ef92a6a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FB5 10064 bytes