Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e54214303391abfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:52:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cdb37c5e0719ea38f5caab4b13f8eb4e SHA-1: 6bd463db3be39df8199f34f7dffdb4b321386d6c SHA-256: e54214303391abfd789c2ab651ae42fe8f1bcef8f11c8335cdb4f1b41cd93589
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The primary URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=backup+android+phone+onto+mac, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to backing up Android phones to Mac, indicating a social engineering lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=backup+android+phone+onto+mac
    • http://soxasa.crackwisemag.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/3508399.pdf
    • http://files.kenyeung.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/8529388.pdf
    • http://files.francescobaroneweddings.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/2041803.pdf
    • http://files.stjohnlutheransherburn.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384335/nigaxurixumuzirekixi.pdf
    • http://misomeri.mystayathomejourney.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/bozinalaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96989945255.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9095/8749/files/berek_and_novak_s_gynecology_16th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1872/2207/files/jikefekup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9557/9029/files/archive_email_to_outlook_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5866/7415/files/mujugatowul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3636/8296/files/30572368741.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4636/2533/files/40806263759.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9055/9655/files/acfta_agreement_africa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3694/2234/files/92478806921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9623/4400/files/98643697247.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6462/3265/files/55823627003.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_off00007064.bin
945724889337fb3ae61bfbba6dde59a94e003b5c3807123ca6e4bef2fa1466c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7064 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081ed.bin
ac533662170b61548899d65b8ffb099d2ea1e40932aad90b1755117c0002b4fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81ED 10196 bytes