Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35c6f540376d7b9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-15 07:41:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c5db6d79130e3fc1bf711aff5a6e7c5d SHA-1: 798af6869a297e3d1c872a0412e7ad022642e33e SHA-256: 35c6f540376d7b9b26b8972c93dce6befffd397326f614e05444eb793b68c66f
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 'ttraff.ru'. 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 and other benign-looking URLs, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting the user to a potentially malicious site.

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/wb?keyword=theoretical%20inorganic%20chemistry%20day%20selbin%20pdf
    • http://files.regulatorycounsel.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381677/9523946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0965/4436/files/samsung_ssd_magician.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7416/4638/files/34635675371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4645/2899/files/sbi_atm_card_damaged_application_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0086/3643/files/food_safety_manager_certification_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5540/7511/files/xejudufitisufedepume.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7003/7924/files/cts_verbal_ability_questions_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7338/9223/files/fevur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5080/2081/files/towonuretelinelukemuxirok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4081/5774/files/57960683704.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7623/0051/files/bahishti_zewar_in_urdu_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xigazisamakolomomabixefox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2348/3548/files/63972849759.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9606/4671/files/xilazurofitefepirix.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_off000062b2.bin
9751fd0e9e2ce795c02a16229e6db97fb1588808b72edd9166f89a3db0185fb5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62B2 5760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007618.bin
ae91e1390d933939af2d12a5d5d36cd24a8691d9d9f6341278976f5a9476a729
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7618 10192 bytes