Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea3031299b0d84f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 13:27:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 16abb9021d90c79b102a9d26c7091be2 SHA-1: 956c514e7112c2e46c18324fabaf3c794366e7b2 SHA-256: ea3031299b0d84f24f5f6d881cdec6f274278792cf9ef4bc2405381917e4f4ec
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=certificado+de+origen+ejemplo+pdf'. Another critical heuristic identified a mass external PDF link farm, with 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9302/4149/files/17217507826.pdf' being the first listed. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirect URL, reinforcing the 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=certificado+de+origen+ejemplo+pdf
    • http://files.coloradomineralandfossilshows.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070799/girapojizura.pdf
    • http://files.swintechtrw.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070611/3be71b.pdf
    • http://files.mnkotatackle.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776601/nidatofirokib.pdf
    • http://files.visitkaunas.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438018/bapori_jojuxep_zoduxak_mowerabo.pdf
    • http://files.bilboshappypaws.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164125/vasusivobowozosojo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9302/4149/files/17217507826.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9254/1589/files/rufafoxobijilegapole.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bewasovenajuwawofitef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9027/1638/files/83561847315.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7589/4422/files/29680916692.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6890/6906/files/bowopijogos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2571/0756/files/98428603725.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5207/1074/files/edit_documents_on_ipad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0731/9974/files/49379550322.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5309/5844/files/52287884771.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_off0001563b.bin
58dd527928c0678993d58f07975d8087e22d8ddcfe215821683a90e014ff1809
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1563B 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001681d.bin
59212daf5dd3bf5e5c9a4b3fd9616bc886e92b0f68f31dc702485bd19436c506
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1681D 11612 bytes