Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca19a0db1e2be5d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 06:23:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 30b52343d300f2b8d4bf478a578e75e3 SHA-1: ae311b6b0843533f9b8b7dd3fca8b1489333e0c7 SHA-256: ca19a0db1e2be5d1aa24e9b874328342b385fdfb2d517e2bc0d01cae0579e588
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=bolt+of+linen+cloth'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure the user to a compromised site.

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=bolt+of+linen+cloth
    • http://files.kelleymonahan.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383247/viguxosevi_bevami_direme.pdf
    • http://files.thetanneryofcoweta.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438313/vetixalodixedog.pdf
    • http://files.tfajax.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774965/bc2b77906f931a1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9508/1635/files/63947227971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6659/7288/files/fugutizubezepimikubovabum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2757/0596/files/faxodadigugibago.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5788/8936/files/badokizomusesilaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0608/2717/files/87492262235.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6467/1909/files/guzizozewe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6737/4758/files/60565554867.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2589/9421/files/xobirejapitimarudofa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1756/0473/files/85478132019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0212/5733/files/gazug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1282/3967/files/7269132866.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_off00004426.bin
85c5ce40982047c09919dbf6aa75561768da7188a691d352a03fe698d9cd88b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4426 4536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000539a.bin
83b004181b9ab35842f5cc10c13b4f1571a080d8e60ce1dd238c9c451b97f726
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x539A 9428 bytes