Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 179080ecf0389d50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 00:32:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7f1389ca38ab995bf8f56e3fd955790b SHA-1: b67c993cfe2ebb680298d6bf37a91da1996a3fb1 SHA-256: 179080ecf0389d50be84d8bee250432bdbe4caa8ae256faaf197f5550957de2a
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 'ttraff.ru'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise its true nature. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to 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/wix?keyword=veritas+cluster+server+6.+2+for+linux
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8232/3870/files/zotefadul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7899/1520/files/rinumuvadusenusikibomejeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/3845/7238/files/universal_precautions_ppt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0058/6649/files/zozadebu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89363e_eeab9efe986544dfb250bf4f8ee5515e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7198c1_f3002b1d00ef40489fe3ee68b2235cd2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/374ce0_d87b1141a83d43f09cfa1d5be5a92839.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1610/0776/files/autocad_3d_plant.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3170/5238/files/database_management_systems_third_edition_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6309/1112/files/2_bedroom_apartment_plans.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9d0892e5dfdb4102aecb43caa329c024.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f80ec_d4c6eb457a07474f991b89366c4665a2.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_off00005b27.bin
653d5f0ceab6080d9d9a4760b92839a725dbc826547b618b22bfb0d9378ef0e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B27 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cd6.bin
82e9edc0422edb6b3ba987be70e1032f708dfd63bc3a02258b75232b7c4ba230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CD6 10008 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008f28.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F28 4324 bytes