Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e52f56bf3a3b9704…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 22:30:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e96c34f49eeff042f9537dd0f945aaed SHA-1: b6ced9d5b2ea1b2c2340d73b7687670d02ac5091 SHA-256: e52f56bf3a3b97041c47bb7b2aae78ecb93e13e0124e053d0f43f62389ec62e5
154 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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=plain+bearing+skf+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the embedded URLs and redirector link are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

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=plain+bearing+skf+pdf
    • http://kepiwiv.invictusaccounting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454859/6005825.pdf
    • http://wabukiw.cbckokomo.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813765/a7076f1b62.pdf
    • http://files.liffordhealthcentre.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874284/5922e3fbe.pdf
    • http://files.sachagrosselart.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969209/belizifimekedaxuwuzu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2040/3356/files/95949226305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kepikopu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0711/3373/files/kambikuttan._net_file_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4029/8392/files/94834163946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9291/1007/files/83970323779.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6432/6299/files/arbol_genealogico_en_ingles_y_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1619/2153/files/17858742229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4951/6199/files/juvizamiruzikogikozuba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6221/4304/files/90650849215.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0722/7542/files/exclusive_agency_agreement.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_off00005f48.bin
fd9f9760d7deff036991f28525e3ea418a6bb22cf33679d083e7ee52d8a05d8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F48 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071b5.bin
14fffbfb5dc5b0d0b50dd362315d8fe134536ddd43f6ec0912118223350361d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71B5 12420 bytes