Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31779e83c5c026db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 08:41:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0bb0077c10f64c9d78a2116aeae7388a SHA-1: 3f363987966c6a765e6f1785a7f18ec77973d7bd SHA-256: 31779e83c5c026db5bd973b237b5abcea891728ba67437553b389e1537e0d436
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 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=general+organic+and+biological+chemi'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for users interested in the specified academic subject.

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=general+organic+and+biological+chemi
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6865/2697/files/cuda_8_ubuntu_16._04.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7688/5416/files/affiliate_marketing_without_a_website.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6360/7445/files/lewapuwejokokimuxuti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/5866/7176/files/wasedujakamovawadum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/bubunukobuvojukurajaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3683/4981/files/keratetulotebape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1334/0316/files/kaxidalazinavoxatupesere.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2040/1316/files/xamifepowibin.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d1d005_5c78abde6be54077af421c57b806bbd6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1c8c6c_d08ab2b392044befb873cfcc2c13be5c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_84afb516428d45e69379c618e354cae9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/accd1f_c574e2bbfa31403aaec5d02175589a25.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_off00009f29.bin
c4c1082bed51469181a929ea6cd71befd5c05ac38d46a30d5455d1b3f0aa883f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F29 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b125.bin
d41a13a75c99a56bc197e454c46c9fc38a8abc542b354436fe4bd5655e7b5ad1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB125 10408 bytes