Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b49c321208717782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.5 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:48:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f5c36a0ead0e1d54c47f52e9f63b6be9 SHA-1: 69ffca9d4e1f0186a7d2c682b6a45f9b13bb6c74 SHA-256: b49c3212087177823dd0cae5b8c94d4d77280a834fd061a51c9a26c6326c343c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=egypt+pyramids+information', suggesting a lure related to Egypt pyramids to entice users to click the malicious link. 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=egypt+pyramids+information
    • http://files.lucasmusicacademy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738805/7928943.pdf
    • http://files.oneeastpaloalto.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397971/6a2f49677b5.pdf
    • http://jewuzo.fnmiec.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813965/8024004.pdf
    • http://files.jerseygreenroomclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606965/8787ef7.pdf
    • http://files.nationalriskmanagementgroup.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682731/9cc68260.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/34803766861.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2778/4095/files/half_sun_svg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2951/1835/files/97402758544.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8361/1801/files/71869642171.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7526/4919/files/38859369090.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4322/5751/files/24987052109.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6302/3518/files/27103135256.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0096/2977/files/vixov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7321/6412/files/fijupisegitoma.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_off0000a939.bin
0ffd36c204c165bd531cd8f7f904becf0100c87770d0b24df0092fe81b1ae3a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA939 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bb82.bin
22f33a094043eec7d04939a8ee6ab0fcbdd565827451a34ffe47fb86f32da3e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB82 14684 bytes