Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2817dd261110693…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 01:40:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1611a6e7e47ecfc813e5bda6d19647d2 SHA-1: 0b8b23342190ebfabd7f734ed7adb82b50642aaf SHA-256: d2817dd2611106931f476338cce9496e59e231c3ea927bee4615da9897457134
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=aashiqui+movie+songs++in+masstamilan'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, with 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4292/0869/files/zusav.pdf' being the first identified. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a link to a Shopify-hosted PDF, suggesting a lure to external malicious content.

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=aashiqui+movie+songs++in+masstamilan
    • http://files.clifechurchcincy.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739119/xepaboderopago.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4292/0869/files/zusav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4363/5879/files/africa_continental_free_trade_area.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0269/1743/files/17954074473.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8120/3861/files/kojajuvafaxufemabisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0473/8206/files/39291783662.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/dukidu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6577/6030/files/depulugude.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7205/9547/files/ryanair_buchungsbesttigung.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5106/4228/files/kuxiwuwekikezolunozutug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8370/3206/files/72253304551.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000981f.bin
a9b3affc2dc9fd5bf5c9777a19f06e85d722b2f8bfe4233078cb515c64a74cb1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x981F 5180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a9a7.bin
2058a17311d59f59c6e3bd0b9b6cd15f80db49d6d0bb03cf0974daeac73ec320
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9A7 15700 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000da16.bin
c988415812f594187b0a0ed75dc52802e798e1695b49bd300f8412a65040a449
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA16 16204 bytes