Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 295f2eabf757cd4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2020-07-29 22:04:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e805b514c81f5b136702f1f0bb06ed15 SHA-1: 102eaf0321e9c75c43bdf5d422de838788af38db SHA-256: 295f2eabf757cd4fbecd962b4c508a9a514f1791e49fab335b780559cfbe7508
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf. The primary malicious indicator is the presence of numerous external links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests the PDF's purpose is to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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=vidicon+tube+pdf
    • http://files.katlarsondesigns.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874379/6225731.pdf
    • http://files.strongteams.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695325/duvugu-libazunilakug-devavum.pdf
    • http://files.milegion-legacyrun.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969435/8949082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7338/9223/files/51386669052.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6195/9073/files/43990468385.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0132/3420/files/xopulagoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3429/files/nidadebekuzatumid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5174/5442/files/33243808582.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66541571973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4445/4051/files/kegetukuligilapusowerumux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0275/7281/files/fajuguguburedikek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3081/4621/files/85899934034.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9635/0624/files/41828572226.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0058/5632/files/73884297630.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/latef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nemevisofopanufu.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_off000136b6.bin
068fff7e2c8ab6ee1c5c30dd6201294b0c5039d8d21a6508d06625812840376f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136B6 4620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001467a.bin
aa1b8f51146a07012e9c06375827acd44c509345b3f4274e8d43b7c21be5bef7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1467A 11128 bytes