Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dd7b58394fbbd26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-01 15:37:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29c5acb18b6df4214333c3da55973e80 SHA-1: cbf74b21826e8c42f9ebfa2e282802baa58547d9 SHA-256: 1dd7b58394fbbd267bca3da4daea67508f7bce944a85e2e08ca63b498a8b6b40
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=definition+of+compressional, which is also listed as a malicious redirector. This suggests the PDF's primary purpose is to lure users to a malicious site.

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=definition+of+compressional
    • http://files.paulquinndistrict-amec.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380773/2205875.pdf
    • http://files.wickenburgbootsbreastcancer.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069879/917002.pdf
    • http://files.3jcn.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815080/kereruja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2168/9254/files/27776100183.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/saran.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7928/5401/files/faboderapugadubera.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3943/8501/files/61218772116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7388/8671/files/12185319111.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8227/6250/files/10819840679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0982/6213/files/rusodobawetibulod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7240/6179/files/tegozopuriwinojixok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2978/1918/files/36846865830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3647/3501/files/97969133911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0358/3384/files/toxudumegozuzevaf.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061ec.bin
6ae3ed9ad8d8f9d0721ba381176f55816dc8dabb9ddd68cc7225e296ee82d4e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61EC 4948 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000729d.bin
cf7ffd65d753072c44003040eff70658ae8aac55a60c43efe7fbaa7f28a882a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x729D 11672 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009975.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9975 4324 bytes