Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f02730a9394d8aee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 10:54:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0aacb058133718ab0653324cb3629152 SHA-1: 25d472b8912afbe97b20ee20e265b8877661080d SHA-256: f02730a9394d8aee345a90051e7cb138b4ffe5d8cf1ad10c1f0495cc8132f01a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, likely to improve SEO and disguise malicious intent. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'testing of toxicity' and a URL that matches the malicious redirector, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

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=testing+of+toxicity+of+environmental+pollutants+in+cell+culture+pdf
    • http://wevopoz.mariescatering.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814674/3f44115b3dfa6.pdf
    • http://files.ndhsaa53206.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775959/durifapatiwitotu.pdf
    • http://files.evawebdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775846/nedulebunaxalorewaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3331/8808/files/spread_offense_playbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/1849/0780/files/kalunevenevuxonu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7926/9541/files/gububefebofegirizi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53551688275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9743/7848/files/50313906263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7107/7542/files/77774532582.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6906/3836/files/46161282583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1993/4628/files/paxul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3863/6192/files/bartram_trail_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1220/2389/files/tusikalenutedu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000735c.bin
be0ac030403170288e6a3a9616e6a60aec6e818e77fc03e3bd7e31f17f35683a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x735C 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008619.bin
e804f4ab9a71b5de0e561fb29df8f68ab22a73d80a8985cbf8719f8d5c246c76
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8619 10460 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a94c.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA94C 4324 bytes