Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c952d51e6200c0d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.8 KB Created: 2020-08-26 13:11:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 15a2e60229676b22bb4aa57b76db35f5 SHA-1: 54b8c15ce195d6da35700ca17c19277631cd1b69 SHA-256: c952d51e6200c0d86ae5d8e692dc1d781c904d27f7f2f8eb9c4b99c5640a7054
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 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=28+creencias+adventistas+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com', suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to increase visibility of the malicious redirector. The ML classifier also 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=28+creencias+adventistas+pdf
    • http://files.adventuresatyourdoorstep.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406736/jidolunebepuje.pdf
    • http://files.hazzanista.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969984/1f1e4ba29397722.pdf
    • http://files.psms95x.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776739/lazogove-sedezedexamo.pdf
    • http://xetikadit.jimramsburg.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636612/vizinegozemi_vitivadotuxa_vefeninari_tejawesizakiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/najolelones.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7474/7545/files/private_guided_tours_of_ireland.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0456/7450/files/9079637013.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2688/9374/files/96787126856.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/2061/6599/files/1741941714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8150/7740/files/12781174200.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4001/2450/files/14313285847.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9494/1603/files/60194698402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0214/9540/files/antonyms_worksheets_grade_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1923/8562/files/verilenomoligusoxa.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_off0000a46c.bin
b1fb6d4f0562dc4d5864f87bc4df03014d085a544c23e37ea2125de8d751e95d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA46C 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b6d6.bin
fa4b2b55dabcf43280bf8b7ba4b09796b4c4237d0630a3055b3d2b42aff01a58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6D6 10480 bytes