Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef07be482dfb3a55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:30:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 24ff36003f98834d5340af2aea382fe8 SHA-1: 62bf06a860dfa869a11dad0c0f311eeec58f0070 SHA-256: ef07be482dfb3a55fa3502a05c1c406dbbf05b37b9288ed4be305222857bf0db
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a 'color street catalog pdf'. The presence of a malicious redirector suggests the intent is to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=color+street+catalog+pdf
    • http://files.informixcommunity.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871727/sibakina-padugagaja.pdf
    • http://mitus.naydacollazollorens.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776265/kuwanofa_jebovajasidu_fererunelutuv.pdf
    • http://files.womensvaad.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438280/dagedetenixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2037/6474/files/20703175920.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7908/9824/files/43793955478.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9138/4736/files/xoxatoxuvu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/92702877098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2880/6806/files/99419732347.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2136/8482/files/xokumixilusutiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2846/2233/files/css_reset_style.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7904/9121/files/76869545292.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3144/5149/files/stealin_uriah_heep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3071/5288/files/58352438299.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kemulubu.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_off00006c58.bin
31d87147044c6110c72c28091789842c0ff75941f46ac4cf14fe3b01bf029112
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C58 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e2d.bin
d4321b6e8ef9d3fb15d71bfe9a19c619b88e8c09223c33ab4a9359a0925cfdaf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E2D 9916 bytes