Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc3a4ce0e695ef2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 12:49:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e0e95194077597162c074474aaa491b3 SHA-1: 0b01e34f66b1069f41deec05bb46a2d3f4228197 SHA-256: dc3a4ce0e695ef2c781c45a1c1521b0194fbd8d57141d226d03bce4cc4388d34
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=ceticismo%20filosofico%20pdf'. Another critical heuristic indicates this PDF is part of a link farm, with numerous links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting an SEO poisoning or traffic generation scheme. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the malicious redirection link.

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=ceticismo%20filosofico%20pdf
    • http://files.rhodes32.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776042/busakoni.pdf
    • http://files.camerontweedlesailing.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970003/4772671.pdf
    • http://files.thekirkoscaravan.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682204/safedekeriwuret.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4373/2126/files/gokatoxuzurerekiko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/wigaxamazemifatunizese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3117/4039/files/the_civil_wars_poison_and_wine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9622/0572/files/98230363060.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3444/7770/files/belly_fat_diet_for_dummies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8076/2023/files/40035423721.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8042/4351/files/buzulugefixob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1117/7639/files/wekowa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/demesudixagivok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7431/3621/files/75529984897.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8535/3380/files/livro_de_bromatologia_em.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_off000099ee.bin
8b19e757209a95db64893d12109a625ed9c9fe58cd242e8d76f6757e2b870727
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99EE 4900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aa8a.bin
0818fa7c35574d0b5fb29c22d25986d9b24aaf203158e50ebf8e2308c143149a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA8A 11920 bytes