Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 084848a5484bd256…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 04:59:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9c11077e543f9278790b616658fdbaeb SHA-1: 5c24b3d7d2e21175bb64f54a75db6f36c501db94 SHA-256: 084848a5484bd256f3fbedda040ce4bd998a5664abbd78ef752622faec91eabf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to downloading PDFs and the 'ttraff.ru' URL, suggesting a lure to distribute more content or redirect users 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=understanding+architecture+through+drawing+pdf+download
    • http://files.solutionsinarchery.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813913/dudebi-kukabovuxetu.pdf
    • http://files.bigthompsonuniservunit.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740053/b45c59229a.pdf
    • http://files.jenniferowendavies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775011/2356720.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5123/8047/files/acta_constitutiva_empresa_constructora.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5293/1995/files/69290972697.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2862/6080/files/57494417893.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7888/5280/files/kilikapepap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0807/1576/files/nanalelikurozevalomufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1980/4578/files/72212803010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7089/7824/files/67348329882.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4555/2277/files/dutuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7982/6597/files/kiwopeti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vijufetibumumupaxewaromuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4684/6107/files/31496864121.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_off00004f67.bin
d1fadd33edf8f0faeb71fd328df73ee1dc413244e16ef628086522e3f4c8c6c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F67 5500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006233.bin
cf196afedd5374226a5002c1a5816f4429942a07851a2b0f189cc50d8e84ed5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6233 10284 bytes