Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd40dbfd6219adb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-07-30 08:43:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 09132c1f38155b1568fa522b701ad8ee SHA-1: fd873e2fcbd9bf7195dbb3135811bc42e425dadf SHA-256: fd40dbfd6219adb8fcf9b56e1d0663d86b82891549e39026484b10573ce72426
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. This URL is disguised with keywords related to song chords, a common lure for SEO-based link farms. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through seemingly innocuous content to malicious sites.

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=adonai+hillsong+chords+pdf
    • http://files.rockandrosh.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681690/9f76f9161194.pdf
    • http://files.godsairforce.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398099/5585583.pdf
    • http://files.ministryofunderwear.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874477/4e6a74fc6d2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5794/6530/files/58746022506.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9534/files/60457854104.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0003/5485/files/95037512601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kipisoluni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1590/5185/files/83398815263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3440/files/banunapuviderezukusixozon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2342/5955/files/86292815952.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3260/0985/files/robevigenuxugugezovu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2735/8115/files/futexidodinivuxafexej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3258/2056/files/zefutakixizisimu.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/fi

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006472.bin
aae98c69036e1a25518dd5a072f2ecca02af20fdb5b3174545f58a240c5c78d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6472 4996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007559.bin
16eacdd0a3a0c512b5f230691eca6fb21329cfe528e42f57abf5966927295253
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7559 14616 bytes