Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01ed618d8ddefcae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-16 19:18:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9d022f6075343efd0e961db3ff655479 SHA-1: 116a6d7ea642d27eaaded281ae02de740c02b53c SHA-256: 01ed618d8ddefcaed62a0151a9ff64d828c1a182baf3451a99f18ce022620feb
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document also features a large number of links to external PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to improve the ranking of the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high probability of malicious intent.

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=django+template+dictionary+access
    • http://files.lindapennell.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856358/9143246.pdf
    • http://siwuf.scottyburford.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454526/gaveji.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2027/1259/files/96197089553.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2887/2341/files/hello_hello_bolke_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2702/9400/files/vufenegudusonikonezasas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7853/2774/files/witisuxenazutig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5517/8150/files/wanomuduboxenuvubejar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0864/7580/files/61059766912.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3557/4943/files/75328670504.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0056/9751/files/32007497836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2670/1718/files/58398580535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4232/4125/files/rotary_lift_installation_instructions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8305/5782/files/introduction_to_nonlinear_aeroelasticity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1042/4993/files/jumesadinuxobijujinazo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6009/2309/files/xivovadikopoxokasifu.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064b6.bin
df338754f0e66aa60a43ceb6dc8fbace2020332a4f29f1633e6b8fb8181449d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64B6 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007798.bin
a465e8adfc6a11c73541cca04981df10d9d6ba9e9aefaee8cbb1e5c12d7f5149
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7798 10376 bytes