Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 259736fa555ee58a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb2c14927d70c1652892a51a837378a2 SHA-1: ad2c78dd4ef9003beafe822a545a359f389a7cd9 SHA-256: 259736fa555ee58aebe0f72ed2cb3d69174206cc14bf2a7b5fad630d573e1dde
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious due to its inclusion of a link to a known malicious redirector. It also contains a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm intended to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=the+emotion+machine+pdf, which is likely used to direct users to a phishing or malware site. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

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=the+emotion+machine+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.c
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9448/0798/files/92232200403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zugazad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3400/2086/files/fevesap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13578549785.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0524/5597/files/berthing_report_of_kakinada_port.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6665/3858/files/gamutufonix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3514/0007/files/24011138662.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7932/7130/files/91294894502.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4118/6215/files/95888616800.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5092/5223/files/82877370871.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3813/8783/files/partes_del_cerebro_humano_y_sus_funciones_psicologia.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2f7e1_98497c308d3b42e2ac4e7311625b556f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2f7e1_0d7c43a567414763827f37291311639a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e5267b53193c413aad1ec56b7ba37177.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_off0000763c.bin
790a6fcddd1d02f17fde47df050beae21fdf9943b398c0488a09fa290a3ecf0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x763C 5036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008740.bin
eb467f535aeea0be66e692f2d05f81b3b3d697a931c52751d08fbd92b91caecd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8740 10076 bytes