Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 184334e0b75cae16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-09-07 14:49:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 02e45fe95ec09878a2954b68c1ab9ecd SHA-1: d0939f73c9b167d85034764853c69bef27dc0745 SHA-256: 184334e0b75cae168c4614ac8e153e2b7afc82f27fc57bd94f7d80f1e2031ebe
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to reference 'cutter insect repellent sds sheet' and contains a URL pointing to 'ttraff.ru', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt, likely 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=cutter+insect+repellent+sds+sheet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9236/8798/files/regamixofomozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3349/3658/files/logo_quiz_level_15_all_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3606/5438/files/trb_zoology_syllabus.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/accd1f_f10b99d350a3404dad54ce4525d6a07f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/60933b_73813583b7d146d9927e720f131ff9b5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/54dfea_c98aea6866f54ed98b5abe13466466b3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ed44c_91bce125a49e4fa1bc13b8f2e96f18bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c20ea7_7461408d18d54cdeb2a95ac394742520.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9edd50_4a871f65cc914fa8b880be2313efa63f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_81b87fe516dd48da9ca8c03f5954dd05.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4081/5774/files/fufodidobujem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4578/9606/files/as_one_catalog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8583/2096/files/apush_chapter_5-_8_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3935/7093/files/tepizafoxofifubajosamagi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3911/3895/files/html_form_post_submit.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_off00006782.bin
c2afe98c61cf938f0448452f63099785996fb9b524279164a93334cc4785d40f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6782 4856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077fc.bin
5bbd2db8ccaf8a3b2714296ea758276d19fa3fcbc70e2d9af2b131619ba1e1aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77FC 10688 bytes