Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e199be196dfeabe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-25 06:59:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d066fec56ae9f9cc7b746dc938d77f0c SHA-1: 23b1a3728c2294b6bbf2cb94f3cf1370285f3c1b SHA-256: e199be196dfeabe6142bf637b438ed89da2fff6477c17f16aba92fed8fcb7f45
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=accidents+reported+today+el+paso', which is also flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute 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=accidents+reported+today+el+paso
    • http://files.odbijelihandela.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739508/jinupiratunitunof.pdf
    • http://datuni.twindragonstaekwondo.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682646/976221.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0279/7986/files/wazekus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6504/8214/files/wedab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wunize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5335/9005/files/emotional_intelligence_at_workplace.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4342/2362/files/vaxegizazetirodisimaxob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8509/3281/files/5_causes_of_cancer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5340/8675/files/91128225480.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4161/9105/files/to_be_past_tense_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3205/9810/files/38773263403.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_off00005e92.bin
86cea08607b8b03397a4e10e74b9d6c78916f4ae7eb7e295180e3b53046c9d85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E92 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007021.bin
237c4aa110e6e9746be671a2bafb3db7a9a3af052b874debdcdda5592f93c507
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7021 14720 bytes