Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfa974c561d340f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-16 02:12:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e65f58846bd882da8ea5485d45f5f381 SHA-1: 1d1aa51104ec9437dd4039b376b055be5e23cac9 SHA-256: cfa974c561d340f01059f6ec6ff0345546ad8968a2a29cb4ec5c332b0ea51509
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is `https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=hcr%2020%20risk%20assessment%20pdf`. Additionally, a large number of links to Shopify domains were found, suggesting a link farm or distribution method. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wb?keyword=hcr%2020%20risk%20assessment%20pdf
    • http://files.hellovetmed.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874647/306995b4fc7f075.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6498/3703/files/kaxoxidefimagugawuwusura.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9977/5381/files/51555274997.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5072/9634/files/candlelight_carol_ssa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zisavugeti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1210/4103/files/livisibodalod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3033/0019/files/42386813397.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6094/4296/files/bowenawegazatotesamifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5913/2056/files/adjective_worksheet_grade_6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4021/1105/files/fenetolipagutob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4613/2119/files/fivosuwusogaxugadogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0489/5143/files/today_tamil_dinamani_news_paper_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0822/8508/files/what_did_the_dormouse_say.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_off00006827.bin
5c2ff28190a74a5b0e5eabfa94055c25fff05136dea18cc2b029453c81494ec6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6827 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007af2.bin
9f0c8c003040585a03a24e96f92220742375bc4000ae7d5366c5909d8de08070
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AF2 11028 bytes