Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce57a872cfcac0f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 15:00:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10290cd618ba91ccf1b9e6887af3388a SHA-1: 136bb011bcfa088a1f82cca8810a1e70465b5301 SHA-256: ce57a872cfcac0f3f7dcead8610678d09b7cb740ca96792a6765c07ce928de87
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded 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 text related to learning to read PDFs and includes the malicious URL. This suggests a lure to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=apprendre+a+lire+pdf
    • http://files.blissmake-upandsfx.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856012/gumubezikip.pdf
    • http://files.shaareitorahcincinnati.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380558/nidajofusavuxej_giwuzomur_genowi_kaxoredijujip.pdf
    • http://files.stunningspacesstaging.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406849/fudulexixenasenu.pdf
    • http://files.williammonaguenativeart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739747/vunidegote.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6057/5894/files/47163124351.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9411/3446/files/sireginowawemabijokefo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6450/0122/files/51105253332.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mapitawaluzosamorexub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6281/3084/files/jejenivomibaxebopov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1731/3176/files/52751626553.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/tiwagibavidozunedu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8038/4674/files/vovodureja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4539/6386/files/21668290790.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8733/0464/files/pokemon_xd_action_replay_codes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1341/3786/files/80739623986.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1157/9809/files/masuzavuludasabux.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_off00006cf0.bin
6f0fa23127be4d7b8ade7cae03e0e8be64d9fb4c6beebd1cdae676f0f3ef4a92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CF0 4848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d7b.bin
89939b802ea41557f078a3037fff2e5b06d83980fcd0808c62a884190881f72e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D7B 12272 bytes