Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1315a85688230ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 07:29:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ea03b1043d352c4799c78fb6870c0097 SHA-1: 849249df1e44a78a35e1171533237ee22577dc3e SHA-256: e1315a85688230ef9d246874dcd0cb6306bb534ae7a49fc023221ab47f1cdfd9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same malicious URL and a large number of other URLs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing.

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=tabela+carbonata%25C3%25A7%25C3%25A3o+for%25C3%25A7ada+pdf
    • http://files.motheongprimaryschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405977/bubawajix.pdf
    • http://files.antoniodavidsinopoli.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873907/4090271.pdf
    • http://penedeg.paveshare.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696194/boxiviwutet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5806/9655/files/88508191685.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4196/2649/files/vaxixorabadunuzufo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1436/4059/files/mubenux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9330/2178/files/16677175503.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tanedikefiresemur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5468/5599/files/bexujebutosejojileberaji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0645/9032/files/65656374992.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3220/4696/files/68890606912.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6828/3294/files/39880309465.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1999/2222/files/60332209872.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_off00005d8b.bin
da267c0876291a9fae5500915538972e7bd8761cf7b310e67111bdff5e31863f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D8B 5560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fa6.bin
029426235a5c8498a9ae119e8e951500bde6af6921c442365858beca55b8aa67
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FA6 12808 bytes