Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31da999b4ce11786…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 06:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 094347a22586c60ae7f12bfa2d12a78f SHA-1: 9c8445148a0ef7e23b0660eabbf1c194a99c0272 SHA-256: 31da999b4ce11786ed6bcaa74ac71c712b2a5bbd8320237946ddba7967503419
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to what appears to be a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `ttraff.ru`. The document body, though malformed, contains the same keyword as the redirector URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=dise%25C3%25B1o+y+comunicacion+visual+bruno+munari+pdf+download
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6869/3407/files/oral_biopsy_procedure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4831/2730/files/a_for_andromeda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8118/6971/files/27017518311.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1a89c8_1eb8e0b324c245d4ac36144aee9cce71.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/575363_9d425f3116134e9f996b8ed948a13166.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cafbaa95d8724e1cbb564a3883c79c92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77eba6_16307961e0554c55840abadd4ae5239e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/64d889_f493ba8ea1fe46efac05bd19af1c90af.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1475/8293/files/abernethy_malformation_management.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5049/9222/files/39076974844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2990/2998/files/66197088638.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8578/3447/files/31672959013.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6411/2805/files/53829215012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9900/4831/files/pimofufodutov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4607/4525/files/tadujikutibudaderani.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_off0000457e.bin
ef0e19687bb67fa31f45a19c2ebd4f7adee7e219d46a5d84b4eef23086d858d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x457E 5908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000594f.bin
5266e9827418dc9eba25e15da957d2b04d9273e12e7a2fbd8096549148a8530c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x594F 9712 bytes