Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31b75833a52d58e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 17:08:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1b8bc1605bfdec3cbb31952915f43754 SHA-1: 2e9ce9b9141c3436e85f45be6e2248aa6ea99c2b SHA-256: 31b75833a52d58e1f2130b04a29077279bc70e9433f48ef2fdbf75573d8e4626
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'law of conservation of mass problems worksheet', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of a PDF redirector link and a link farm indicates an attempt to drive traffic to malicious 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=law+of+conservation+of+mass+problems+worksheet
    • http://files.uhuconservancy.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681343/woxugodomotow.pdf
    • http://files.wvncrails.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856446/d79c03f67293c88.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5433/3093/files/fobubugafikore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1739/5614/files/53460105401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3309/9430/files/velineneworego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3774/4534/files/dijulerinusolal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2449/8333/files/48312798769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3444/files/xurevuxupabima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3278/6597/files/vozuvif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6557/1493/files/pl_sql_experienced_interview_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2264/5408/files/ophthalmic_lenses_and_dispensing_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8606/7352/files/74326796446.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9956/9829/files/blockchain_by_example_download.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_off0000466f.bin
4ede06383de4482b6090c10e3d793d0f1aa70a2b0ba9b8df8915794359444167
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x466F 5552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000593f.bin
1414ec9bf600b08ec2130c80c28b21ae724bd7c95d7f754d75146a3fd393b0e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x593F 9648 bytes