Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15d376fd4dc1ea47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-21 21:51:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 03a7742e41a04241c1b5f5869e4c9ea5 SHA-1: 3eea51e48cffa86bfc9d87ee39b6cd1bf2c574a9 SHA-256: 15d376fd4dc1ea477c4bbc9d0a6cdd100a7218c699ab7f64edba7a4a5b18766c
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 designed to lead users to further malicious content. The document body, though obfuscated, includes this URL and suggests a lure related to 'cross reference sheet definition'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content.

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=cross+reference+sheet+definition
    • http://files.hawknews.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164488/9474988.pdf
    • http://tedenom.solsticehavanese.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383297/kepobelemefi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3422/0456/files/75205968985.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0202/6393/files/46386148884.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0569/7438/files/sidanajijexatajerolinonu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3355/8168/files/22386452851.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7645/files/analytical_chemistry_skoog_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/varanomavumozomadeda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5448/1056/files/android_studio_generate_apk_for_testing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4885/2894/files/60444534641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1121/1425/files/bodyweight_crossfit_workouts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7381/4172/files/91212918304.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9725/8136/files/bijogunu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a3c.bin
6f4b568ce8616f5bdce55ddd20968c4ddd9e4e44377518804508aa7ce6048316
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A3C 4680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a15.bin
ab0782812f3a3f27923f8b38de82073f880009084e20b2d401cadaf60f31af21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A15 10764 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008e5f.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E5F 4324 bytes