Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3931495d3493b3dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-18 19:23:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e2b0136dec6aa1c49ad12cd7bce8fc8d SHA-1: 9fd98bdef5721f7c0dea8769a8da6e87f81c912a SHA-256: 3931495d3493b3dc38d5d10c40e61c44e5318edc7d8404043647b5f9e48332ab
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and appears to be a lure related to 'Rtc buses information'. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to increase visibility of the malicious content. 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/pify?keyword=rtc+buses+information
    • http://files.graceub.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681880/7bdd9d78ad01.pdf
    • http://files.dbssstingsoccer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/3872dc7.pdf
    • http://files.bodybykat.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/41027881.pdf
    • http://files.westyorkshirefurniture.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398509/ligagipewopag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6569/9478/files/the_economist_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5612/8412/files/dodisozomanuxogazurabonu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1157/0838/files/google_sheets_duplicate_values.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4969/files/17460567851.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zenafepejeviwasi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0011/0999/files/34761837078.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7824/4765/files/tcs_ninja_aptitude_questions_and_answers_with_explanation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9975/0560/files/59062831867.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0495/2735/files/fallout_new_vegas_sprint.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_off00005dbf.bin
b97998673b43bc6b3bbb06d36849bc8c25c1ee1ee8493a6faae2d250849a8bfd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DBF 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f1c.bin
2681f00ef8dcaffe5b6b09e80a4a8d58beb8d91bb162875939bdedc75b3f13e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F1C 9860 bytes