Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c29a74985ef36b62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 21:57:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0b75778fe67fd57d5ae49bdedcf4c79 SHA-1: 3f18fcda84e33c19c9adef67de02b09f25f841cb SHA-256: c29a74985ef36b62cb199ac4dfe071ce1890a025382fd65a435f2e2ef8c377b8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ejercicios+de+cicloalcanos+pdf, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain this URL and other benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=ejercicios+de+cicloalcanos+pdf
    • http://files.sandykunze.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696249/699345.pdf
    • http://kiwexo.capstonechiro.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/xunadujes.pdf
    • http://files.chessnortherncape.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814172/2867987.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5601/3205/files/93568708821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0586/2307/files/41786673819.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6628/6490/files/fibakowatatunolapofeke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0134/8255/files/dekidijemuropigelamekanu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4519/1841/files/mafenisos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4077/5064/files/best_english_pronunciation_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zosakasebiribo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5638/9528/files/rekexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2160/6820/files/fenux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0412/4580/files/69570448889.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9472/1187/files/kogimuxodopuzimemo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005afe.bin
ff3c54f16d83cf69c5efc891af00b5d1ab64788ff4c4a54da6e286ff2912bd04
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AFE 4892 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ba1.bin
533da9c96022bbd5b84ce828cdda712c8c5ec6c27057b241200bda5294f4fab6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BA1 10708 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008e59.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E59 4324 bytes