Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2ab93540fac6896…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 23:57:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29d76ca1a167a78cfa3aebd5ee5dd001 SHA-1: 97e427f9eb0db1851e2a8d870d7c1e3cbd628496 SHA-256: f2ab93540fac68961f60015863fd344174bcfacef434241cfaf58a4edefbedd1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=f+b+outlets+pdf. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=f+b+outlets+pdf
    • http://files.thesummitplayhouse.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739140/mekuvizon.pdf
    • http://files.polowl.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413905/wozovopa_jinut_vizim.pdf
    • http://files.jollyduke.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710711/d62ba0a1de.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5775/0951/files/42171150004.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7167/6314/files/57332725185.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/jevenugurupogobotinapimu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7232/3737/files/18559449348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/20604720305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6728/4383/files/63836721814.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5114/7679/files/85864398150.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7220/0608/files/catalytic_naphtha_reforming_revised_and_expanded.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7937/7830/files/18364110245.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4742/6965/files/nijad.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_off0000710d.bin
ed7be1b5e9e119ab330ad37e2055f2da1dfeb1c4299117bd86bc22b8457cf046
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x710D 4824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008185.bin
3ad90a7b680e2e06c760248eb4071cdc7181c7d4d319ec5445f344777d0f15c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8185 10788 bytes