Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf553b5b87378d4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.4 KB Created: 2020-08-26 00:00:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f772f427b97af26e9de145e37095c751 SHA-1: 811d8f7182d2c05ccf5b1e04f12359be4444f5aa SHA-256: cf553b5b87378d4fb1c0cfc52f5940070f039ad554db3fff6cb8347ff36bc498
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a search result for 'change pdf page size adobe acrobat reader dc'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt. The document also contains a large number of links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, many of which are benign, but some point to unknown domains. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=change+pdf+page+size+adobe+acrobat+reader+dc
    • http://files.bitpixerssupport.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406982/jetobezomaluzun.pdf
    • http://files.amrconsortium.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454106/8692284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5370/9472/files/opposite_adjectives_vocabulary_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5892/1621/files/41171219709.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3716/2657/files/top_10_movie_sites_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0842/9977/files/what_are_news_values_and_why_are_they_important.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0279/7986/files/stardew_valley_golden_clock.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4670/5051/files/everything_is_awesome_lego_song_mp3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xiguxalenagidofivixonagez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4557/6088/files/vadupeke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/2896/3482/files/pidusip.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_off000041f5.bin
7db74527a4e10560670bba431bfa198fdfcb47dd01b337fa7931ca3d8718b5a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x41F5 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005494.bin
ffcef6c4948e8a1c620d30aa55ee51e68bd67c48f341323b21f760b9c30159c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5494 9372 bytes