Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31187801056e3601…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 02:28:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e6bb58de1da09d0feee82c8ae2510d1 SHA-1: bc0ac8d832a034fc62212c5fec61e6c886ef5149 SHA-256: 31187801056e3601f95b0a2931bfdbcbdd1c28b5863de65317bd7e67dbce2f03
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a seemingly benign title related to 'emotional intelligence test questions and answers pdf'. This suggests a social engineering lure to direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=emotional+intelligence+test+questions+and+answers+pdf
    • http://wesukef.foolsforchrist.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/945643.pdf
    • http://files.pabritishcar.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453370/jedibekedupoxutibone.pdf
    • http://files.lynncoc.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438869/zikutanunoroz-begedopudoninor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2230/2888/files/vugufatekefi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5045/1623/files/lusexe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3817/0526/files/62871524505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0115/9575/files/72865547925.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dojedeteremedadedarovir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4248/6934/files/16383505652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4959/1718/files/petopizepexor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2685/6610/files/8578093178.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4957/3784/files/vuromil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8876/4316/files/css_z_index.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_off00007927.bin
401171a9bce0697d4ffc31b1690e5ac80a678bbed61159d13fe8b9b28f96cfbb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7927 5652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c54.bin
e69bb8a9fd262f41118368279678f7cf2076db9097c65bbd7450e833bffda88a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C54 11320 bytes