Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c5a718ce96d610e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 11:15:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 132e2625cfbf346ca640f91540e103c0 SHA-1: 66159b9c05fa2e03dbe0ca21cc53783a15b505d5 SHA-256: 1c5a718ce96d610ef996f900d50c5c0c46c292cbb054d910e9545ac0b617edb6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a glossary of auditing terms. This link points to 'ttraff.ru', which is known for malicious redirector infrastructure. The document also features a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=glossary+of+auditing+terms+pdf
    • http://files.leppekpottery.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857717/5546471.pdf
    • http://files.veneficaclothing.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637014/9917641.pdf
    • http://files.hamiltonproperties.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438245/3558045.pdf
    • http://files.mrseppenbach.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379117/7026760.pdf
    • http://files.libertyfreewill.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696598/vifigunal-juxiwexor-tixumuxobidom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3696/7063/files/44387237147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2358/8773/files/kevexejixet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6072/3865/files/word_search_leetcode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8564/4447/files/85190596328.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8721/7319/files/edema_cerebral_pediatria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6011/7160/files/94722602347.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3929/2577/files/felizudamuvejekax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8463/4530/files/30628862076.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0877/7637/files/dalitidufujat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6196/7013/files/migimesijefewaxar.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010f2c.bin
04c33d94b5275d4129bc59b5ba418c0f139afe93bd1f23a8986286f1320a6793
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2C 5496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000121d7.bin
ce8f124aeee6a832f934ceb971943a0a1c1a975bf89eef9489f793fb069b579b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121D7 10556 bytes