Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 339f00c60e12529f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-17 09:07:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fb864bd20036671617078610de963e7c SHA-1: 2bf26d899c9a77ef1e01a295f1bd3689a4f4a391 SHA-256: 339f00c60e12529feba4f3b4bfd015ddc84fc356168864bdb86620363ad88a4e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a PDF related to 'industrial ergonomics case studies', likely a lure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm heuristic further supports a malicious intent to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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=industrial+ergonomics+case+studies+pdf
    • http://dafozuji.epidesignlab.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857101/sunasa.pdf
    • http://ximetad.ahmedahres.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739113/e43e54feaf.pdf
    • http://files.liveactionguideservice.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871568/4257493.pdf
    • http://files.kzooathleticwellness.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813732/91c604fa9a2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3395/0370/files/lanepugigolaba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9172/6240/files/fast_times_at_ridgemont_high_123movies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1304/4386/files/masnoon_dua_bangla.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zugazad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2794/6904/files/71025717680.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6617/1296/files/86316757738.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3718/7493/files/voxogapeginobisagube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4662/files/ad_d_2nd_edition_monster_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4398/6327/files/40010120655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6582/7747/files/nuwumesogasotej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8098/1407/files/55325404625.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_off00006337.bin
f4384227a8d56d0da21bf3ee9afaa06dea7396188f77e4f518d93982e7f7204d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6337 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007583.bin
fab5d6b99c8e19b9bd6a299fd3d621d6315bf51e9900eaf066d2a01b833e0d25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7583 10340 bytes