Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38e91d494960d582…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 08:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20862d6141ea311b63df2ab5f0d6fbf8 SHA-1: cd75a43443b3722d4f7ca0eede6d8fe94332114f SHA-256: 38e91d494960d582768c9aeb8fab72bd69fafd27e4bdc39a00e88c2c51fb2c07
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a related query string, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content as a technical document. The presence of numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=c+class+template+array+size
    • http://files.maxstrength.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302888/1b7e87.pdf
    • http://files.alberta-legal.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636655/vijaguz.pdf
    • http://files.ambrosechiropracticcare.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681657/49303b0898298f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3367/3380/files/vosisibogoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4103/4135/files/ccie_routing_and_switching_v4._0_configuration_practice_labs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8865/0141/files/wogupesudeji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1311/8872/files/87751091601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0267/4845/files/69551553519.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8870/6717/files/html_to._net_core_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2745/6419/files/15125569803.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6754/7546/files/kofiwekimalupelutez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9645/files/applications_of_nanotechnology_in_material_science.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4527/3251/files/46802955902.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8176/8872/files/raxokipa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3378/6525/files/tolib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6572/9429/files/27338591597.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_off0000669c.bin
3128a251d4e1126c3c4b87e0bfc74941e34bb1e040d61d24b1d61a5ee5b12101
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x669C 5136 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007805.bin
989d6b3a4e6b784339d052ad9a0499c8d9c4d939c0fb258607bd4d15f53e21ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7805 15856 bytes