Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e8977b42085d281…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 20:56:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 01737d7eca0f9f1cd0fb5f1eb6d93bb2 SHA-1: 547b3b58b90536efc093a7cafe0183b28aa12902 SHA-256: 0e8977b42085d281f954961348ca0576f4a250f55a94d44859587249586cdfb9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified as a redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though obfuscated, contains keywords related to the Boeing 737 MAX crashes, likely as a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious action is the redirection via embedded links.

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=boeing+737+max+plane+crash+reports
    • http://files.lilabahlphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383657/wofixugiped-gapenu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/5297/7576/files/breaststroke_technique.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7275/6648/files/accounting_tutorial_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4670/5051/files/71129256626.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0126/6851/files/16869460312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7142/2115/files/pibejibagunapozosebudow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2953/4632/files/29625303656.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8150/7740/files/carrom_pool_mod_apk_unlimited_money.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9418/0001/files/intro_to_quantum_mechanics_griffiths.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6756/3418/files/pavuxepixejat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/21659337375.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_off0000644a.bin
ddcf2419997a50c3e308198d616031e9479a36d7fc25b346ca78409673add623
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x644A 5708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000778f.bin
de6f87e02bfdd7b4d898d07efb8bcf9a712b9342d6785331fd3582976813dacc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x778F 9860 bytes