Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08d73495a9e61987…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 07:25:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb6b87b834ca74609160407336061751 SHA-1: 6721bf213aa594ad75c1b4b5659b0d3cbcf1cb1d SHA-256: 08d73495a9e61987642360ad24ed9a129a0d11612bc954e7738581073139cfc0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised with a keyword related to electrical transformers. This, combined with the heuristic indicating a PDF link farm with numerous external links, suggests the document is part of an SEO manipulation scheme to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=bushings+used+with+electrical+transformers
    • http://files.ccandleco.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740399/05bd24.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2067/1386/files/28150703597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6862/8890/files/80040634746.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8692/1382/files/unnatural_tinkers_construct.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2270/5063/files/piwoduwuroxen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9367/2604/files/57118194654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8219/5879/files/acculturation_in_sociology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2833/3219/files/54958182126.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9983/2995/files/gozezomivogariwotakudu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7201/1931/files/ralasisel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/94323725826.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7704/2325/files/64816705668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5361/2199/files/49907567033.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_off0000754f.bin
af9f00daad152dae774c7ee252cefe55b09c3606b7158375855afeb3b3ca1bac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x754F 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008827.bin
f1622f7578d6f5a5c704d9fa457a0aa6984da45ddee0e751d42eb4ad72deca89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8827 10304 bytes