Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c71f737f0e61fd25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-17 03:10:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29ae6df69ae6a2ac3a9fe688bb89df17 SHA-1: e75014acc44571fde7161fe261f7b317b8195e5f SHA-256: c71f737f0e61fd2563ffc8ffc651400d6ba7c09339d79e302d8c2471ab4ed793
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ultralight+backpacking+tips+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to backpacking and the malicious URL. The presence of numerous links to Shopify PDFs, some of which are benign, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to disguise the malicious redirector. 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=ultralight+backpacking+tips+pdf
    • http://files.brucepizzichillo.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303131/9142123.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2086/0064/files/las_energias_renovables.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4575/6821/files/86923179015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1607/7991/files/97309641005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8765/1235/files/ledalixuto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7574/7483/files/sigazesexanomave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5085/2762/files/36715905006.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2249/5389/files/if_formula_in_excel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sovir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1732/3175/files/dubafujurupiridapogaduwim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2096/6293/files/28409808953.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8131/1132/files/38444386834.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0281/3849/files/john_lennon_beautiful_boy.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_off00005db3.bin
cdf90d96e4db143c82ed5f3251e771fe068e9be29a10aded35b0be6907628e57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DB3 5172 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f24.bin
34c81c82922767afe41c64e4c82fca2c4c263517eb401ec06563fc1651671426
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F24 10176 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000091ec.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91EC 4324 bytes