Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7e58758faa27782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 15:53:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 232980de900cca1cd4ef55bf26209489 SHA-1: 5441bc0e4cbd71b35b4f4c914036ba697cbaf685 SHA-256: d7e58758faa27782081830e9af0db0d6d60d01f50525a99d15e26e05b13532f0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'ttraff.ru' which is flagged as a malicious redirector, disguised with a 'ryanair boarding pass' keyword. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on Shopify and other domains, indicative of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or phishing lures. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=ryanair+boarding+pass+pdf+smartphone
    • http://viwunamub.trappercreekoutfittersltd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738943/pewejatanalijofawe.pdf
    • http://files.centralmississippirobotics.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606968/xepixumolo.pdf
    • http://wewol.suicidalflower.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454373/7143862.pdf
    • http://files.marissagable.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775998/weligepizazemoruvefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2340/8032/files/bifagosifofebizixukoxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9499/0243/files/exercices_corrigs_sur_atomistique.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7963/9967/files/dirosatugubilusanitof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8863/4263/files/33674876022.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2174/4803/files/2615301178.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4253/5574/files/32745619627.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7162/5621/files/sekexodugotunere.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/6219719719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7327/4018/files/15180311499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7673/0533/files/3427748069.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6081/2190/files/38908385530.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5369/4626/files/84962922519.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_off000061e2.bin
92da35726ab61b33271c5545c309e9c480837279efded72ac777c2af91439a74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61E2 5672 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007504.bin
70b5a1b231c43ff3c4392b228aa6b21f97d844325e548d43898d310b35be07f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7504 10664 bytes