Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1458e6b8734884d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-16 15:45:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 18f92718625c6d5855a0699fff854f09 SHA-1: 10cdcc33714fcc7c7f07e9d803d0911044ece1aa SHA-256: 1458e6b8734884d576006a5d7e9110d871b50bbe0f9c56813e03fdea94e08cd1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which are designed to appear as legitimate documents but lead to a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to interview questions and also includes the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering attempt to drive traffic 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=behavioral+interview+questions+and+answers+for+supervisors
    • http://rupusis.ruggyd.us/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969723/78c88b.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6150/1336/files/artificial_selection_in_animals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/0373/4184/files/affiliate_marketing_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2295/8248/files/69838132681.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7205/2643/files/the_cask_of_amontillado_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6011/7160/files/9980296985.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0357/5447/files/28837829412.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1234/8314/files/cofactor_of_a_3x3_matrix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3847/files/89090047913.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6876/7912/files/62347723177.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9390/7869/files/auxiliar_administrativo_comunidad_de_madrid_temario.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7990/1096/files/7564297265.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_off0000692a.bin
2ed496cc4871b09643031247de8b8550c8cd45fd8d6187ecfed29270f2e8c903
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x692A 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bc7.bin
43821d64e25f5c3f9dd4dff6d163c64f5eebbb83037410a5b2e173a669bfd754
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BC7 10288 bytes