Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea0e3a6e2f6f0498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 13:47:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 26ce33082df2a54d06a344eef57de12a SHA-1: 883ab75e5b375961427aa300851caad37d982dbd SHA-256: ea0e3a6e2f6f04988e2b4740c0eca49ecbfe25101f2045f12f5ce53da545d092
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aviva+adviser+platform+charges', which is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Aviva adviser platform charges', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious links. The presence of multiple Shopify links, some of which are benign, is likely part of a tactic to obscure the malicious intent.

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=aviva+adviser+platform+charges
    • http://lipon.barriecowan.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813710/vuxegutixefuk_zubulemaduvol_kefudutupo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1437/4047/files/72428866165.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1044/9830/files/90252105458.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5905/9615/files/roxajabidexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5503/7078/files/online_retail_business_plan_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2263/9527/files/legiru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1664/2975/files/kebuwukogemuganizitozumav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1274/2550/files/44597134027.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/google_translate_english_to_swedish.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1620/8036/files/50782751364.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4529/6027/files/audi_a4_avant_2020_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9276/3039/files/sened.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/6272/4517/files/amadis_de_gaula_completo.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_off0000645b.bin
4e9a323dea8b05b9fa383b830a97d2baf7fbb36a748b19aa6c2ad62843293bf0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x645B 5620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007756.bin
17c2f26cbe4eeb15adab24f821952650bec51ab8e076642a2e626fe076894568
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7756 10192 bytes