Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 204ef3552a2c8a9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-08-13 01:34:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: da1d80fc9a77c34cba1c3821cb58685a SHA-1: 2c80173c9ab764a352d30d10e2bc1ceee427850f SHA-256: 204ef3552a2c8a9f62bdba83cff150879d71ac7f6b9b30d381078e0358d64812
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into visiting a malicious site by appearing to offer a free PDF download.

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=business+administration+books+for+beginners+pdf
    • http://files.mcshuki.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969399/17cf38ea5f48ce4.pdf
    • http://rorexaw.dixielandbandorlando.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/1452570.pdf
    • http://larefes.roundupforautism.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636951/pawitorizur-nadiwowutop-fugogide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1784/4382/files/bts_fake_love_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1141/3915/files/9647099414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0933/5715/files/67548371139.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3807/9138/files/98594422031.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9350/5688/files/fupatuxadasowita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3917/8399/files/54833795610.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7518/9401/files/civic_education_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0280/4898/files/lubojizarujuxat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3759/7607/files/15678862666.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7368/3100/files/44502663605.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2118/9788/files/dikegevigikare.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3098/files/32173457300.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_off00007b47.bin
5a20245d149880dadcf54c17a752ad4ec3fe38521975e088baaf8de94e489553
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B47 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008dbc.bin
417ca962febe2d1b714079870019e3ce49aaf65ff73e99c7fa9a677870fb7db7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DBC 10108 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b050.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB050 4324 bytes